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- Provides a unique economic, social and environmental policy analysis on intangible assets (IA)
- Proposes a strategy and policy approach to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Compares Sweden’s intangible assets (IA) with smaller, similar, high-tech nations
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Maps to Tell a New Story
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Policy Discussion in a New IA Era
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Closing the IA Gap
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Emerging New Trade Structures and IA
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines the role of intangible assets (IA) in companies and countries for achieving sustainable economic growth. The authors particularly focus on Sweden and other Nordic countries to analyse the IA gap using a systematized “IA metrics” approach. They also discuss the incentives needed for strategic investments into useful IA to gain national competitiveness from an economic, social and environmental policy perspective.
The authors contend that despite the increasing importance of IA and intellectual capital (IC) in the economy, the current discussion has only been centered on intellectual property, which is one of the more prominent forms of intangibles. As this book demonstrates, IC and IA encompass wider dimensions of human, process, market, and renewal capital, among others. Featuring real case examples from Spotify, Minecraft and Izettle, this book offers a strategy for the resurrection of competitive advantage in the globalized economy and the advancement of some key United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Keywords
- Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
- National Intellectual Capital (NIC)
- Sustainable National Intellectual Capital
- Intangible Assets in China
- Intellectual Capital in China
- Intangible Assets in Sweden
- Intellectual Capital in Sweden
- Intellectual Capital Enterprise Mapping
- Intangible Assets Enterprise Mapping
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
Eskil Ullberg
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New Club of Paris, Stockholm, Sweden
Leif Edvinsson
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Department of Business Administration, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan
Carol Yeh-Yun Lin
About the authors
Eskil Ullberg is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the Trade in Ideas Program at the Institute for Management of Innovation and Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). Prof. Ullberg is a pioneer in experimental studies of markets in patents and strategy consultant for 20 years. He works on patent markets and teaching finance and economic development classes for 5+ years and is active in the patent market discussions with United Nations, European Commission, World Trade Organization and others. Prior to research and teaching over 20 years of experience as international management consultant in strategy for firms, international organizations and government agencies alike (central bank, patent offices, other) with special focus on management of risk.
Carol Yeh-Yun Lin is a Professor in the Department of Business Administration at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. She received her PhD in Human Resource Development from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. Her research interests include strategic human resource management, international human resource management and intellectual capital.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intangible Asset Gap in Global Competitiveness
Book Subtitle: Mapping and Responding to the New Economy
Authors: Eskil Ullberg, Leif Edvinsson, Carol Yeh-Yun Lin
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Business
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55666-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-55665-5Published: 01 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-55666-2Published: 30 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2191-5482
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5490
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 102
Topics: Accounting/Auditing, Corporate Environmental Management, Development Economics