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Measuring intellectual capital and sources of equity financing – value platform perspective within the Finnish biopharmaceutical industry

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  • Raine Hermans
  • Martti Kulvik

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The aim of this study is to create a theoretically derived basis for measuring intellectual capital within the Finnish biopharmaceutical industry, and to relate these measures to ownership structures. Our empirical model employs survey data from small and medium-sized Finnish biopharmaceutical companies. The sources of equity financing are identified and the means of measuring Intellectual Capital (IC) in the value platform framework is created. Various sources of financing are related to the intellectual capital and other characteristic features of these companies. The biotechnology company owned by another firm is distinctive, corresponding to different strategic functions designated to the company by the owner firm. The largest investor group, venture capital companies, seem to prefer a well-balanced combination of intellectual capital. The other owner groups showed among themselves a rather similar pattern of investment preferences.

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  • Raine Hermans & Martti Kulvik, 2004. "Measuring intellectual capital and sources of equity financing – value platform perspective within the Finnish biopharmaceutical industry," International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 1(3), pages 282-303.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijlica:v:1:y:2004:i:3:p:282-303
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    1. Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi & Hermans, Raine, 2004. "Financial Pecking Order and the Value Platform of Intellectual Capital," Discussion Papers 926, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy.
    2. I W M Bandaranayake & Prof. M D Pushpakumari PhD., 2023. "Identify Variables to Measure Intellectual Capital in organizations: A Literature Review," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 7(4), pages 1281-1294, April.

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