By employing the Platform Company Strategy, we seek to identify platform companies or global companies that are tapping a deep reservoir of intangible capital to generate earnings growth. Intangible-rich companies often possess competitive advantages such as a strong brand, proprietary knowledge or a unique distribution mechanism.

Platform companies consistently incorporate knowledge components, or intellectual property, into their products and services. Platform companies focus on knowledge-based elements such as research and development, design, marketing, distribution and services. Such companies are largely service-based and advanced manufacturing businesses and often operate globally.

To read more about the research and methodology behind our process, please download our white paper Intangible Economics .