National Intangible Capital

National intangible capital (NIC) performance for 59 countries 2014 as measured by the ELSS (Edvinsson-Lin-Ståhle-Ståhle) methodology for measuring stock of national intangible capital, economic impacts and efficiency of NIC: Research is supported as an initiative by The New Club of Paris.
 * NIC index values as a measure for stock of country NIC potentials embedded in its national intangible capital
 * National Intangible Capital NIC consists of four basic dimensions according to the model by Edvinsson & Malone (1997). This model has been further developed, now consisting 48 different indicators representing the four main NIC categories:
 * Human capital: Capacity and capability of a country population
 * Market capital: Global business attractivity of country
 * Process capital: Operational functionality of the nation
 * Renewal capital: Capacity for knowledge creation, exploitation and innovation

In further sections national intangible capital NIC and the ELSS methodology is described in detail.
 * Economic impacts of NIC in GDP formation as percentage (%) of GDP, i.e. how much of GDP is depending on and produced by utilizing NIC
 * Efficiency of NIC as output/input ratio, i.e. ratio of percentage impact in GDP per cost of input as percentage of GDP

NIC performance 2014
(Source: bimac nic 2014 / http://bimac.fi)