This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … should be on boosting manager and worker skills that are intrinsic to all forms of innovation, by filling gaps in training …

The US innovation system has many strengths, including world class research universities and firms that thrive in … innovation-intensive sectors. However, fissures have begun to appear, notably in the areas of human capital development, the … curtailed by budget cuts. Revitalizing the dynamism of innovation has become a priority for US policymakers. To this end, it is …

Strengthening the innovation system in the Netherlands is a priority for raising productivity growth, which has been … relatively weak in recent years. Knowledge creation in the Netherlands is strong -- scientific publications per capita are the … sixth highest in the OECD -- but innovation activity is only around the average for OECD countries according to the EIS …