A term that should resonate throughout our politics and policy, a term that should speak to the ideal America, where there is no black or white, red or blue, or at least an America where these intangible points of reference don't dictate the terms of the debate, has not been realized.
But it has also forced it to wrestle with the question of what kind of school it wants to be, and how to preserve the intangible selling point often referred to as "identity".
Beyond all the numbers, the biggest impact Zimbalist made on the crowd was in belittling the biggest yet most intangible selling point of the Boston Olympics: that hosting such a historic event would make Boston a "world class city".
However, all three perspectives – the RBV, the KBV, and IC – are typically only cited for two reasons: (1) to make the general point that intangible resources, such as knowledge, underpin organizational performance and competitive advantage and (2) to serve as conceptual frameworks to attempt to explain observed differences in performance [ 7, 19, 30, 32].
The results were two-fold: some articles pointed to intangible benefits accrued by developed country partners, but the majority of information pointed to developing country innovations that can potentially inform health systems in developed countries.
We liked that he had all the intangibles of being a point guard".
But tonight he and his teammates were missing something more intangible than Mourning's points and blocks.
And of course such assets are increasingly important in the fabled "new economy".The authors try hard to deal in their book with this crucial point about intangibles.
But the theme that recurs most beguilingly is his exploration of the relationship between dreams and creative inspiration: both are unpredictable, intensely personal and, as one character points out, intangible yet composed from discrete building blocks, "made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes".
