# National Intangible Capital

National intangible capital (NIC) performance for 59 countries 2014 as measured by the ELSS (Edvinsson-Lin-Ståhle-Ståhle) methodology for measuring stock of national intangible capital, economic impacts and efficiency of NIC: Research is supported as an initiative by The New Club of Paris.
          Human capital: Capacity and capability of a country population
          Market capital: Global business attractivity of country
          Process capital: Operational functionality of the nation
          Renewal capital: Capacity for knowledge creation, exploitation and innovation
* Economic impacts of NIC in GDP formation as percentage (%) of GDP, i.e. how much of GDP is depending on and produced by utilizing NIC
* Efficiency of NIC as output/input ratio, i.e. ratio of percentage impact in GDP per cost of input as percentage of GDP
In further sections national intangible capital NIC and the ELSS methodology is described in detail.

## NIC performance 2014

| RANK | Country | NIC Index | GDP Impact % | RANK | Efficiency | RANK |
| 1 | USA | 8.98 | 73.80 | 2 | 5.77 | 1 |
| 2 | Singapore | 8.93 | 53.23 | 21 | 4.83 | 13 |
| 3 | Sweden | 8.55 | 75.74 | 1 | 5.73 | 2 |
| 4 | Denmark | 8.34 | 68.82 | 4 | 4.72 | 15 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 8.24 | 63.23 | 6 | 5.26 | 4 |
| 6 | Finland | 8.18 | 69.43 | 3 | 5.01 | 6 |
| 7 | Luxembourg | 7.99 | 61.68 | 12 | 4.94 | 9 |
| 8 | Canada | 7.83 | 57.79 | 17 | 4.56 | 16 |
| 9 | Japan | 7.82 | 44.29 | 33 | 3.83 | 34 |
| 10 | Lithuania | 7.80 | 56.57 | 18 | 4.84 | 12 |
| 11 | Netherlands | 7.75 | 62.00 | 11 | 4.53 | 17 |
| 12 | Norway | 7.66 | 52.58 | 25 | 4.13 | 26 |
| 13 | Israel | 7.60 | 64.27 | 5 | 5.01 | 6 |
| 14 | Hong Kong | 7.58 | 62.74 | 8 | 5.65 | 3 |
| 15 | Germany | 7.57 | 61.36 | 13 | 5.00 | 8 |
| 16 | Iceland | 7.44 | 58.48 | 16 | 4.25 | 23 |
| 17 | United Kingdom | 7.38 | 62.69 | 9 | 4.74 | 14 |
| 18 | Australia | 7.38 | 59.05 | 15 | 4.34 | 20 |
| 19 | Taiwan | 7.36 | 60.80 | 14 | 5.18 | 5 |
| 20 | Belgium | 7.35 | 63.20 | 7 | 4.86 | 10 |
| 21 | Qatar | 7.31 | 62.15 | 10 | 4.86 | 10 |
| 22 | Austria | 7.13 | 53.03 | 22 | 4.11 | 27 |
| 23 | France | 7.12 | 49.66 | 27 | 3.84 | 32 |
| 24 | Ireland | 6.97 | 56.26 | 19 | 4.16 | 25 |
| 25 | Korea | 6.94 | 52.59 | 24 | 4.29 | 22 |
| 26 | New Zealand | 6.91 | 50.41 | 26 | 4.10 | 29 |
| 27 | UAE | 6.70 | 49.41 | 28 | 4.51 | 18 |
| 28 | Estonia | 6.12 | 44.86 | 32 | 3.31 | 50 |
| 29 | Slovenia | 6.11 | 43.19 | 34 | 4.02 | 31 |
| 30 | Spain | 5.94 | 40.26 | 41 | 3.23 | 52 |
| 31 | Czech Republic | 5.75 | 54.31 | 20 | 4.18 | 24 |
| 32 | Italy | 5.57 | 38.12 | 46 | 3.38 | 47 |
| 33 | Croatia | 5.54 | 45.84 | 31 | 3.39 | 46 |
| 34 | Hungary | 5.52 | 46.23 | 30 | 3.84 | 32 |
| 35 | Portugal | 5.52 | 38.22 | 45 | 3.21 | 53 |
| 36 | Chile | 5.46 | 35.16 | 53 | 3.80 | 35 |
| 37 | Malaysia | 5.43 | 41.59 | 36 | 3.62 | 42 |
| 38 | Greece | 5.29 | 36.67 | 50 | 3.20 | 54 |
| 39 | Peru | 5.20 | 42.30 | 35 | 4.46 | 19 |
| 40 | China | 5.08 | 48.54 | 29 | 3.77 | 38 |
| 41 | Poland | 4.92 | 52.79 | 23 | 4.30 | 21 |
| 42 | Ukraine | 4.90 | 36.77 | 49 | 3.79 | 36 |
| 43 | Brazil | 4.78 | 19.69 | 59 | 2.29 | 59 |
| 44 | Russia | 4.74 | 40.44 | 39 | 4.11 | 27 |
| 45 | Jordan | 4.68 | 38.29 | 44 | 3.78 | 37 |
| 46 | Mexico | 4.64 | 34.43 | 54 | 3.56 | 43 |
| 47 | South Africa | 4.61 | 37.51 | 47 | 3.34 | 49 |
| 48 | Slovak Republic | 4.59 | 40.53 | 38 | 3.35 | 48 |
| 49 | Kazakhstan | 4.58 | 40.36 | 40 | 3.54 | 44 |
| 50 | Turkey | 4.57 | 39.39 | 43 | 3.69 | 39 |
| 51 | Colombia | 4.50 | 32.07 | 56 | 3.14 | 56 |
| 52 | Thailand | 4.42 | 39.59 | 42 | 3.54 | 44 |
| 53 | Bulgaria | 4.38 | 41.33 | 37 | 3.65 | 41 |
| 54 | India | 4.32 | 30.73 | 58 | 2.94 | 58 |
| 55 | Romania | 4.25 | 36.62 | 51 | 3.24 | 51 |
| 56 | Argentina | 4.16 | 36.61 | 52 | 3.68 | 40 |
| 57 | Philippines | 4.14 | 36.87 | 48 | 4.04 | 30 |
| 58 | Indonesia | 3.72 | 31.34 | 57 | 3.00 | 57 |
| 59 | Venezuela | 3.68 | 32.55 | 55 | 3.16 | 55 |
(Source: bimac nic 2014 / http://bimac.fi)