How Much Does the UK Invest in Intangible Assets?

Mauro Giorgio Marrano and Jonathan Haskel ()
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Mauro Giorgio Marrano: Queen Mary, University of London and CeRiBA

No 578, Working Papers from Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance

Abstract: We attempt to replicate for the UK the Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005, 2006) work on spending on intangible assets in the US. Their work suggests private sector expenditure (investment) on intangibles is about 13% (11%) of US GDP 1998-2000, with intangible investment about equal to tangible capital investment. Our work, using a similar method, suggests the UK private sector spent, in 2004, about £127bn on intangibles, which is about 11% of UK GDP. The implied investment figure is around £116bn (10% of GDP) which is about equal to UK investment in tangible assets. Of the £127bn expenditure, (in round numbers) about 15% is spent on software, about 10% on scientific R&D, almost 20% on non-scientific R&D (design, product development etc.), about 14% on branding, about 20% on training and the rest on organisational capital.

Keywords: Intangible assets; R&D; Training; Organisational capital; Investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E01 E22 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-11-01
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