Second, we undertook a new survey of firms, the results of which are fully documented
in Awano et al. (2010). In terms of the spending numbers here, that micro-study found
spending on R&D, software, marketing and training to be in line with the macro-based
numbers in this report. However, the implied spending on design and organizational capital
were very much lower in the survey. This again suggests that these investment data require
further work