1、Geneva,25 June 2024Key trends and insights Co-published annually by the World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO)in partnership with the Luiss Business School(LBS),the World Intangible Investment Highlights reveal that intangible investments grew at three times the rate of tangible investments

2、between 20082023,proving resilient despite economic uncertainty and tighter monetary conditions.Indeed,investment into intangible assets,such as research and development(R&D),software and data,brands and design(box 1),has consistently outpaced investment in tangible assets,such as machinery and equi

3、pment,since 2008.As a result,investment into intangible assets constitutes a growing share of gross domestic product(GDP)among the economies covered by this report.The World Intangible Investment Highlights and its underlying Global INTAN-Invest Database offer novel,up-to-date cross-country,quarterl

4、y and annual measures of investment into intangible assets,including those not included in official statistics.The statistics provided cover a range of high-income and emerging economies(starting with India).This represents a significant advancement for evidence-based policymaking(see boxes 1 and 2)

5、.Below are seven stylized global trends in intangible investment across a wide range of intangible asset types.World Intangible Investment HighlightsBetter Data for Better PolicyStylized fact 1:Despite multiple crises and interest rates increasing,intangible investment has grown three times faster t

6、han tangible investment between 20082023 Among the 26 economies covered by this report,which together accounted for 52 percent of global GDP in 2023,total intangible investment has consistently outpaced total tangible investment since 2008(figure 1)Figure 1 Total intangible and tangible investment,1