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. A sound innovation capacity, especially knowledge, creativity, market and management skills let them become bridges for …During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially … information and communication technologies, knowledge-intensive business service firms increasingly play the role of "converters …
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This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …
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outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper … findings suggest that technological uncertainty, contractual experience and openness to external knowledge sources motivate the …
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This paper tracks the growth and decline of information and communications technology (ICT) industries that were synonymous with the so-called new economy boom of the late-1990s and its subsequent bust period in the early 2000s. The analysis focuses on the question of whether the ICT bust has...
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This paper examines the extent to which information technology has contributed to Canada's productivity growth, how Canada's productivity performance compared with that of the United State, and the impact of the recent Canadian productivity revival on prosperity.
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Nous degageons un profil de la diversification des societes dans l'economie canadienne a l'aide d'une base complete de micro-donnees sur les entreprises canadiennes et de donnees au niveau des industries sur les flux des echanges. Notre analyse vise deux objectifs majeurs. Nous decomposons...
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mesure en fin de compte par son incidence sur l'innovation au sein de l'economie. Dans une economie dynamique, axee sur le … travailleurs-element qui est relie en partie a la formation qui est complementaire a l'innovation et contribue a la croissance. …
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sur l'importance de l'innovation en tant que facteur de croissance et sur les besoins des entreprises novatrices en … prosperes attribuent leur reussite a l'acquisition de competences dans une vaste gamme de domaines. Cependant, l'innovation … strategie en matiere d'innovation axee sur la R et D, l'adoption de nouvelles technologies de pointe ou la mise au point de …
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This study examines the factors influencing a firm's decision to train, using data taken from several recent Statistic Canada surveys that explore advanced technology use by Canadian manufacturing plants. Advanced technology adoption has been both rapid and pervasive, leading to concerns about...
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knowledge economy, whose potential is often linked to the growth of new technology-based firms (NTBFs). Where are these firms to … that classify industries as high-tech or high-knowledge, based primarily on the characteristics of large firms. There is a …. First, it constitutes a multidimensional approach to industry classification. As different concepts - such as innovation …
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