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Why Intangible Assets Matter More Than Ever
Intangible assets now drive over 90% of enterprise value in the modern economy. Yet most businesses struggle to identify, measure, or manage them.
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Why the Next Frontier in Portfolio Value Creation Is Intangible — And How to Measure It
Every venture partner has felt it: the gap between what the balance sheet says a portfolio company is worth and what you know it is worth. Traditional...
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Opagio Awarded Innovative and Pioneering UK Smart Grant Award
Opagio is delighted to announce a £100K+ Smart Grant award by Innovate UK.
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SMEs can only increase real wages and EBITDA based on improving both labour and capital productivity
It has never been more difficult to attract and retain skilled staff. With inflation rising above recent historic levels, real wages are decreasing at the...
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How Opagio is helping to transform hospitality
Due to the COVID pandemic the hospitality sector has faced the worse challenges that anyone can remember. We offer a pathway to getting back to delighting...
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Growth in the Digital Age Relies on Managing Innovation and Intangible Assets
Entrepreneurs, business thought-leaders and economists agree that innovation and knowledge-based services drive most economic growth. This knowledge is held...
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SMEs Must Grow Despite the Challenges of Severe Downturns
In times of economic uncertainty, faced with problems such as rising cost of borrowing, increasing inflation and shrinking staff supply, SMEs face extreme...
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How many UK Productivity Puzzles are there?
I think that based on the evidence of economic history, the UK led the world in productivity growth from 1776 to roughly 100 years later. This leadership...
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Intangible Assets that Drive Disruptive Innovation
The nine categories of intangible assets used by economists are described below. Those highlighted in italics are difficult to measure for ONS. The most...
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Why do Intangible Assets drive Growth?
According to national income accounting in both the USA and UK the capital services charges of Intangible Assets are roughly equivalent to those of Tangible...
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The UK Productivity Puzzle
One of the first articles discussing the UK ‘productivity puzzle’ was published by the Bank of England (Batten et al, 2013) in a Quarterly Bulletin. This...
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