The Global INTAN-Invest database provides up-to-date cross-country, quarterly and annual measures of investment in intangible assets, including those not included in official statistics. The latest release, in June 2024, covers annual and quarterly estimates of intangible investment for the whole economy, spanning from 1995 to 2023, for a total of 31 countries, including 27 EU economies (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden), India, Japan, the UK & the US.
Investment in intangibles provided by Global INTAN-Invest refers to the list of assets suggested by Corrado et al (2005, 2009) including both national accounts assets – Software and Data bases, R&D, Mineral exploration and Artistic, entertainment, and literary original – and assets not yet classified as investment in national accounts – Attributed designs (industrial), Financial product development design, Market research and branding, Operating models, platforms, supply chains, and distribution networks and Employer-provided training.
Technical information about Global INTAN-Invest data can be found here:
