Harris, R. and Moffat, J. (2021) 'The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level and distribution of intangibles investment in the UK.', Applied economics letters. .
Abstract
This paper investigates trends in intangibles investment since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Responses from an online survey show that investment in R&D has dropped substantially for many firms but that over 40% of firms increased their ICT investment, which is likely to reflect the need to facilitate remote working and customer engagement. Industry is a major predictor of the change in intangibles investment. This is consistent with expectations in light of the different effect that measures to contain the pandemic have had across industries.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download PDF (Advance online version) (1016Kb) |
| Full text: | Publisher-imposed embargo (AM) Accepted Manuscript File format - PDF (214Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1954591 |
| Publisher statement: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Date accepted: | 07 July 2021 |
| Date deposited: | 13 July 2021 |
| Date of first online publication: | 20 July 2021 |
| Date first made open access: | 05 August 2021 |
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