
Intangible Investment and Market Valuation
This study derives performance‐ and expenditure‐based estimates of intangible capital and measures the extent to which intangible capital is captured by the equity market measures of firm value. Intangible capital is evaluated using occupational information available in
the Finnish linked employer–employee data for the 1997–2011 period. The performance‐based organizational investment in value added is approximately 3 percent; R&D and ICT investment shares are lower, at 1.5 percent, and all are clustered in intangible‐intensive
sectors that represent 40 percent of the private sector. Expenditure‐based organizational capital also exists in clusters other than that intensively investing in managerial and marketing effort, and performance‐based R&D capital is concentrated in the cluster with intensive
R&D activity; both increase the market value of firms beyond the level that can be explained by standard economic analysis.
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Keywords: J30; J42; M12; O30; O32; R&D; intangible capital; linked employer‐employee data; market valuation
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 March 2016