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IP industry norms, and the power of information

iphone steel band 2.jpgDon't miss the latest opinion piece from Warren Savage, on the semiconductor industry in general, and EDA and IP in particular - Warren Savage On: The Power of Information

He considers the role of the Global Semiconductor Alliance's IP Working Group. This has recently announced to the GSA membership a quarterly survey that allows buyers and sellers to disclose in summary and anonymously the key terms that they have accepted in license agreements for the past quarter. The results of the survey will be made available to participants of the survey to enable them to compare themselves to the industry at large.

An important problem, he says, has been that - in the past - no single company has a sense for the industry norm and as a result operates in an inefficient, expensive information vacuum....

He begins:
Data is extremely valuable and an asset that should always be sought and used as a manager's most important tool for decision-making. However, good data is often hard to come by.

Chris Anderson in his book Free: The Future of a Radical Price discusses the paradox of the value of information,...

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