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Based on data from 1995 to 2008, all five Nordic countries are listed among the top ten in the National Intellectual Capital Indices (NICI40) for 40 Countries. Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Norway ranked number 1, 2, 4, 7, and 9, respectively (2007 and 2008 data for Iceland were unavailable). Denmark has the highest score in human capital and the second highest score in process capital; Finland has the highest score in process capital; Norway has the highest score in financial capital; and Sweden has the second highest scores in both human capital and renewal capital.
National intellectual capital ranking of five Nordic countries
Humancapital | Marketcapital | Processcapital | Renewalcapital | Financialcapital | Overall IC(NICI40) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | 7.84 | 6.41 | 7.25 | 6.16 | 9.71 | 37.37 | ||||||
SD | 0.22 | 0.28 | 0.33 | 1.35 | 0.17 | 1.68 | ||||||
Country | Score | Ranking | Score | Ranking | Score | Ranking | Score | Ranking | Score | Ranking | Score | Ranking |
Denmark | 8.15 | 1 | 6.62 | 4 | 7.42 | 2 | 5.81 | 7 | 9.69 | 9 | 37.69 | 4 |
Finland | 7.79 | 4 | 6.61 | 5 | 7.71 | 1 | 7.36 | 3 | 9.56 | 18 | 39.03 | 1 |
Iceland | 7.58 | 7 | 6.55 | 7 | 6.86 | 9 | 5.14 | 9 | 9.67 | 10 | 35.80 | 7 |
Norway | 7.72 | 5 | 5.96 | 15 | 7.06 | 5 | 4.71 | 14 | 10.00 | 1 | 35.45 | 9 |
Sweden | 7.98 | 2 | 6.31 | 10 | 7.18 | 4 | 7.78 | 2 | 9.63 | 13 | 38.89 | 2 |
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Please refer to Chapter 3 for the definition of each individual indicator.
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Lin, C.YY., Edvinsson, L. (2011). National Intellectual Capital of Five Nordic Countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden). In: National Intellectual Capital. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7377-1_4
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