Measuring knowledge-based capital Managing knowledge-based capital as a source of growth and as a driver of value creation for firms requires proper measurement. OECD work will develop sound and comparable measures of key knowledge assets to improve policy making.
Hard-to-measure knowledge assets
Business investment in KBC and tangible capital, as a percentage of value added (2010)1
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Towards a measurement agenda
US investment in organisational capital (2002-2011)2 450
Investment in billion USD
400 350 300 250
200 150
100 50
0 2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
Manager-based investment in OC
1
Source: OECD calculations based on INTAN-Invest, OECD Main Science and Technology Indicators, Eurostat, United States Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Australian Innovation System Report (2012), Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Japanese Industrial Productivity database.
2
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Task-based Investment in OC
Source: OECD calculations based on the earnings data by occupation and industry from the Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS), US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2003-2012, see Squicciarini and Le Mouel (2012), DSTI/DOC(2012)5.
Last updated: March 2013
Measuring knowledge-based capital
Economic growth and productivity
Knowledge outcomes and flows
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