Assessment Methods of Intellectual Product in Research Universities

Abstract

This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific debate over how to find the best methodology for valuing the intellectual products of research universities. The main purpose of the research is to propose a methodology for evaluating the product of intellectual labour in research universities. The systematization of literary sources and approaches to solving the problem of valuation of intellectual property has shown that, despite the considerable amount of scientific work on the valuation of intellectual property objects, there is no methodology for their evaluation in research universities. This problem is actualized at the stage of transformation of an intellectual product into a full-fledged type of economic activity. This study sheds light on the basic basics of the proposed methodology for determining the technical and economic utility of an intellectual product. The author’s methodology improves the classification of the intellectual property valuation and the basic concepts used in carrying out the valuation, the types of values, methodological approaches to the valuation and calculation of the intellectual property, the baseline information requirements, the evaluation procedure and the calculations. However, particular attention is paid to the main provisions for evaluating the university’s intellectual performance. The developed methodological recommendations will be useful to experts in cost estimation in intellectual property, in rendering independent valuation services, in carrying out internal valuation and in experts in carrying out valuation assessment. The methodological basis of the study is a scientific and practical understanding of the achievements of foreign scientists in the field of intellectual capital theory and analysis of Ukrainian legislation in the field of intellectual property. Methodological tools of the study were methods of economic-mathematical and logical-structural modelling. Research universities are selected as the research object because they are the core of the creation of intelligent and innovative products and the main driver of scientific and technological progress in the country and the world. The research empirically confirms and theoretically proves that the developed methodology for the intellectual activity evaluation of research universities is the basis for organizing and implementing the process of determining the value of objects of intellectual property of the institution. Keywords intellectual property object, intellectual product, intellectual activity, research universities, methods of valuation of intellectual property objects.