A1. Countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China Mainland, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Latvia, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA and Venezuela.
A2. Regions: Benchmark averages (population, workforce and GDP weighted and direct) calculated for EU, EMU (Euro zone), Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, G8, G20, PIIGS, BRICS and ASEAN countries in database.
A3. Additional 1: Special groups: World, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. / Calculations as in A2.
A4. Additional 2: World, developed countries and developing countries in five (5) categories by level of GDP/capita and/or NIC advancement. / Calculations as in A2.
National intangible capital NIC is measured using 48 indicators for human, market, process and renewal capital. For each capital class a composite upper measure is constructed as well as final NIC.
Measurment perspectives are NIC as potential or asset (index values), impacts in GDP (percentage impact shares in GDP formation and annual growth) and efficiency (output/input ratios where inputs are expences or investments linked to indicator).
NIC trade value is calculated as a weighted average for each country using global import/export trade shares as weights and trade parners corresponding NIC as value. This is done for all indicators and all categories, i.e. index value, impacts and efficiency.
NIC trade value and its development is a major factor when analysing global competitiveness and an essential component in SWOT, RCNA and trend / tipping point analysis.
Strenghts and weaknesses, opportunities and threats, SWOT, as well as revealed comparative NIC advantages RCNA are determined combinig internal (national), global (regional, world) and network (trade) dimensions with trend analysis.
Analysis focus on imapcts and efficiency of NIC and makes use of NIC trade values and is linked to tipping point analysis.
Tipping point analysis is performed by identifying key drivers (indicators) resulting in NIC impacts (growth) stagnating and vice versa key drivers inducing growing NIC impacts.
Analysis make use of forecasted NIC developmental trends combined with global (demographic and socio-economic) projections.
NIC Heath maps goes beyond GDP by focusing on country specific impacts of national intangible capital and a larger view of society and social progress.
Basic accuracy for estimates are high or low impacts coming fast or slow in time on a -1.0 to 1.0 scale.
Heath map categories:1) GDP, 2) employment and productivity, 3) trade, 4) investments and financial sector, 5) government budjet and spending and 6) welfare and spending.
Pillars are defined as indicators (drivers) which are needed on a rather high level to uphold high impacts in GDP formation, but impacts in GDP growth are minor or declining.
Saturating drivers are defined as indicators strongly boosting present GDP growth, but which are in phase of turning into pillars.
Demographic and particularly resources in exceptional excess, i.e. natural, financial or population related special resources.