Investment

Investment in physical plant, machinery and buildings helps make workers more productive and is a way of embodying new technology in the production process. The overall investment climate depends on a number of factors, such as the availability of finance, macroeconomic stability and the existence of sufficiently skilled workers to utilise the equipment effectively. In recent years, information and communication technology has emerged as an increasingly important type of investment, which embodies improved technology and facilitates organisational or process change. 

This section covers:

• Physical capital investment - investment in new physical assets helps ensure that business has the latest available technology, and helps spread technological innovations throughout the economy. Physical investment by government ensures that the public infrastructure meets the needs of a modern advanced economy.
  
  
• ICT investment– connecting to the digital market place allows firms
  to transform the way they do business, creating new markets and
  changing the dynamics of the old.