The Economic Importance of Intangible Assets
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781351147002; 9781351146999
Subjects: Intangible property; Economic aspects
Description: "This book is the result of a two-year interdisciplinary research programme named PRISM (Policy making, Reporting and measuring, Intangibles, Skills development and Management), financed by the European Commission and aimed both at understanding better how these assets are created and developed and what the policy implications of their growing importance in economies are. The book focuses on the policy issues raised by the increasing importance of intangible assets in a country's growth and competitiveness. The main idea is that the value of intangible assets, which is imperfectly captured by current economic indicators and imperfectly formalized in economic theory, lies in their being the cumulative elements that keep the economy together - the glue of the system. This argument leads to the focus on networks and social capital as drivers of the development of intangible assets and is illustrated by the case of EU innovation and knowledge diffusion policy."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 The Intangible Economy: Overview of PRISM Research Findings  -- Clark Eustace; title: chapter 2 The Political Economy of Intangible Assets  -- Patrizio Bianchi Sandrine Labory; title: chapter 3 EU Policies for Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion  -- Sandrine Labory; title: chapter 4 Clustering of Intangibles  -- Marco R. Di Tommaso Daniele Paci Stuart O. Schweitzer; title: chapter 5 Why is Social Capital a 'Capital'? Public Goods, Co-operative Efforts and the Accumulation of Intangible Assets  -- Francesco Galassi Susanna Mancinelli; title: chapter 6 Public Intervention to Increase Collaboration between Innovative Agents  -- Roberto Iorio; title: chapter 7 Dynamic Networks in Innovation-Intensive Industries  -- Alberto Cottica Giovanni Ponti; title: chapter 8 Intangibles and Intellectual Capital: An Overview of the Reporting Issues and Some Measurement Models  -- Stefano Zambon; title: chapter 9 Towards a More Effective Investment Analysis of Intangibles Sensitive Companies -- Mike Hall Richard Youngman.