The Importance of Immaterial Investments in the Tunisian Textile and Clothing Sector and Barriers to Their Emergence

This article analyses the importance of intangible investment and barriers to their emergence in Tunisian textile sector. Our methodological approach is the following one: firs we try to turn on the origins of the concept intangible investment and explain that if the term intangible investment is increasingly present in the current economic literature, the concept is that it covers much older origin; is the succession of different theoretical contributions which contributed to the formulation of the concept. The analysis of the explanatory factors of growth in different eras, through the work of some classic pioneers such as Adam Smith and Jean Batiste Say and Walras and neoclassical Marschall, helps us to locate his origin. This is the purpose of our first section of this article. The second section aims to revisit the definition of this term and its evaluation methods. In the third section we will try to analyze the importance of these investments in the Tunisian textile and clothing sector as well as the obstacles to their development.