small slowdown in intangible investment turns out to generate the same fall in capital stock as a steep fall in tangible spend, so the changes in resulting capital services are similar.
Table 2 shows investment by intangible asset for 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2008 with tangible investment for comparison. The intangible category with the highest investment figures is training, growing to approximately a third of tangible investment by 2008. For information we also report GDP and MGVA excluding intangibles.