1. The ONS has estimates of UK intangible investment 97-02 : Investment in intangible assets in the UK: 2022 with data here:
Investment in intangible assets in the UK.
2. if we start by industry we have:
Showing that these data are for what I call for short-hand the "business" sector, i.e. excluding L, real estate and O/P/Q, public admin, defence, health, educatoin.
3. to get a sense of scale, what is GVA for these sectors? the ONS Blue Book, 2024, industry analysis, has this graph
with the underlying data here. This gives totdal GVA= 2.265tr, Govt = 0.433tr, Real estate = 0.292tr => business sector = 1.539tr = 68% of total GVA (govt = 20%, real estate 13%).
4. Returning to intangibles we have in 2022: tangible investment = 167.3£m, intangible 199.7bn, of which £77bn is capitalised and £122 is not. That gives 5% capitalised intangible/GVA and 12% total/(GVA+uncapitalised).
5. the industry intangible intensities are below. ICT, Manufacturing, finance and the arts are intangible intensive.
with the 2022 figures being 199/(1539+122) = 12% and 167/(1539 +122)=9%. (or for capitalised, 77/1539 = 5% and 167/1539 = 11%).
