“The final way to respond to the difficulty of lending against intangibles is the most radical. It is for businesses to change their finance mix: specifically, to rely more on equity and less on debt. Should a business fail, equity owners have no recourse – they get nothing – so can afford to be relatively insouciant about the liquidation value of a business’s assets. This makes equity a better way of funding businesses with few tangible assets.”
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