The fair value of the innovation. A proposal for determine it

Abstract

According to the NIF Financial Reporting Standards, fair value represents the exit price that, at the valuation date, would be received for selling an asset or paid for transferring a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. When there is no accessible exchange value of the operation, an estimate must be made using valuation techniques. In other words, fair value is the price at which a tangible or intangible asset is sold / bought between two economic entities on a voluntary basis. Even if there are complications to determine it, it must be estimated by applying valuation techniques. But what happens when the asset object of fair value is not the subject of a transaction between two economic entities? That is, what happens when the asset is the result of an internal generation process of the economic entity, such as an industrial design on which a patent can be generated? How is fair value determined in this case? This article contains the analysis of the concept of fair value contained in the financial information standards and a proposal for its determination in the case of assets generated internally in economic entities as a result of innovation projects, considering for this purpose the valuation technique of the net present value NPV.