This note reports on collaboration between Imperial College, the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), and industry sources to improve measurement of UK investment in artistic originals. We focus on creation of long-lived artistic original assets protected...

This report estimates:(a) The level of UK market sector investment in knowledge assets protected by Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and(b) The impact of investment in those assets via their contribution to labour productivity growth in the UK market sector. Estimates for investment and the...

New estimates of UK business intangible investment protected by intellectual property rights, show continuing growth, and recovery in business intellectual property investment to the point where, by 2011, it was already above its pre-recession peak.The historical growth pattern looks to have...