Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
-countries. While productivity growth has been rapid in manufacturing, it has been much slower in the service sector. Paradoxically, all … manufacturing industries have invested heavily in intangible assets such as R&D and vocational training. In 2005–2006, intangible … investment was 25 percent of value added in manufacturing, while the corresponding figure for the service sector was 11 percent …