What are "complementary assets"?

It refers to all other capabilities that are not used to support technology or innovation, mainly referring to assets that generate value in investment, such as investing in expressways, which will drive corresponding supporting investments such as expressways and gas stations.

Many scholars believe that a good organizational environment can attract and retain talents, create a better atmosphere for employees to be happier and work harder, promote the potential of employees, and indirectly create value for enterprises. Therefore, it is also a kind of capital, an intangible capital manifested through the optimization of structure and the adaptation of soft environment and human capital.

Some studies on the development of high-tech industries in the west also show that the most important factor that determines the high-tech development of a country, a region or even an enterprise is not the quantity and quality of material preparation, but social factors such as economic organization structure and cultural tradition related to the development of human capital potential. Therefore, combined with the views of many scholars, it is summarized as supplementary capital. If material capital is regarded as hardware, human capital as intellectual part, and complementary capital as supporting part (or software), it plays an auxiliary role in material capital and human capital.