World Intangible Investment Highlights - Better Data for Better Policy

World Intangible Investment Highlights, together with underlying data from the Global INTAN-Invest Database, offers novel, up-to-date cross-country, quarterly and annual measures of investment into intangible assets, including those not included in official statistics. The statistics cover a range of high-income and emerging economies.

Intangible assets are key drivers of innovation, productivity and economic growth. Despite their importance, our understanding of the size and impact of intangible assets remains limited due to gaps and lags in the available data. More timely data with better coverage beyond high-income economies is essential to help inform pro-growth policies.