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The SPINTAN Project (Smart Public Intangibles), directed by the Ivie for the European Commission, aims to define the theoretical and empirical characteristics of public intangible policies. The Project is carried out by academic researchers from diverse European institutes and universities.

The database on public intangible assets collects data from 22 European Union countries, along with the United States, China and Brazil, covering the period of 1995 to 2015. It provides information on investment and capital stock in intangible assets such as trademarks, design, original recreational, literary and artistic works, the organizational structure of companies as well as their in-house training, and expenditure on R&D and software, which are now included in the National Accounts of each country.