There are two kinds of costs associated with intellectual property. There’s the cost of capitalizing on it—and the cost of not doing so. Either way, you need a realistic sense of what it is worth to you. Then you can develop a strategy for getting the most from it
retaining and leveraging the IP that’s most critical to your business, while licensing or selling the IP that isn’t.

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