Martin Brassell’s specialist area of expertise is in the use of intellectual property in finance, and the identification, scoring and valuation processes needed to facilitate it. He has worked extensively with banks, investors and policy makers across the UK, Europe and Asia to develop new approaches that recognise the importance of this asset class for business growth.

Martin is best known as co-founder of Inngot Limited (www.inngot.com), established with Professor Iwan Davies (now Vice-Chancellor of Bangor University) in 2007. Inngot offers innovative online tools that ‘unlock’ IP value by enabling companies to identify, explain, value and manage their intangible assets and intellectual property. These are currently optimised for use in 14 countries, and have identified over $1bn in value to date, mostly for small and medium-sized businesses.

Martin has written and co-authored a number of influential publications on IP utilisation. These include the 2013 Banking on IP? report and the 2017 Hidden Value report on IP valuation markets, both for the UK Intellectual Property Office. Most recently, in 2019, OECD published his latest paper, Fostering the use of intangibles to strengthen SME access to finance. Martin has also led two investigations into company intangible asset investment for ACCA (Innovation, Intangibles and Integrated Reporting and Accounting for Intangibles), and co-authored a book for Oxford University Press, Economic Approaches to Intellectual Property, with Dr Nicola Searle.

Martin is a member of the Commercialization Committee of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys and a Fellow of the RSA.

Martin Brassell’s specialist area of expertise is in the use of intellectual property in finance, and the identification, scoring and valuation processes needed to facilitate it. He has worked extensively with banks, investors and policy makers across the UK, Europe and Asia to develop new approaches that recognise the importance of this asset class for business growth.

Martin is best known as co-founder of Inngot Limited (www.inngot.com), established with Professor Iwan Davies (now Vice-Chancellor of Bangor University) in 2007. Inngot offers innovative online tools that ‘unlock’ IP value by enabling companies to identify, explain, value and manage their intangible assets and intellectual property. These are currently optimised for use in 14 countries, and have identified over $1bn in value to date, mostly for small and medium-sized businesses.

Martin has written and co-authored a number of influential publications on IP utilisation. These include the 2013 Banking on IP? report and the 2017 Hidden Value report on IP valuation markets, both for the UK Intellectual Property Office. Most recently, in 2019, OECD published his latest paper, Fostering the use of intangibles to strengthen SME access to finance. Martin has also led two investigations into company intangible asset investment for ACCA (Innovation, Intangibles and Integrated Reporting and Accounting for Intangibles), and co-authored a book for Oxford University Press, Economic Approaches to Intellectual Property, with Dr Nicola Searle.

Martin is a member of the Commercialization Committee of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys and a Fellow of the RSA.