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Question 1. David Bowie has undergone several transformations from Ziggy Stardust to the Thin white duke over three decades in the music industry. The capital markets have seen considerable value in his talents. He became the first person in the music industry to float a bond issue for a total cost of $50 million. The entire issue was sold within one hour. Can we consider David Bowie's talents as intellectual capital? How would you have reliably valued his talents earlier in his life when he was Ziggy Stardust?

Question 2. How does one identify an emerging knowledge process and add value to it when one may not know whether it will contribute to the future success of an organization or not? is developing scenarios enough?

Question 3. What are the likely positive and negative consequences of 'method of doing business' patents? How would patent offices be able to distinguish between two MdB patents such as toasting a piece of bread?

Question 4. How could you determine the shelf life of intellectual capital? For example, is any attempt to measure intellectual capital valid for only three months?

Question 5. How can we reliably account for the depreciation in intellectual assets in a firm?

Question 6. How can the manipulation of intangible assets be curtailed?

Question 7. What are the dangers of high levels of social capital within an organisation?

Question 8. Are intellectual capital accounts likely to increase spurious reporting and financial engineering of company accounts?

Question 9. What are the advantages and disadvantages of an international agreement on intellectual capital accounts led by the wTo or oeCd?

Question 10. If an intellectual capital narrative is based on a company's culture and values, how can an analyst make meaningful comparisons between firms in the same industry or other industries?

The prescribed book is: Knowledge management. (2011). An integrated approach by Ashok Jashapara, 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-273-72685-2.