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La part des nouveaux emplois crees au Canada par les petites entreprises est-elle disproportionnee? Reevaluation des faits

Picot, Garnett; Dupuy, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1994

L'observation statistique selon laquelle les petites entreprises ont cree la majorite des nouveaux emplois au cours des annees 1980 a eu une incidence enorme sur la politique officielle. Les gouvernements desireux de favoriser la croissance de l'emploi se sont tournes vers le secteur des petites...

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La formation comme strategie en matiere de ressources humaines : la reaction aux penuries de personnel et au changement technologique

Baldwin, John R.; Peters, Valerie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

Nous examinons dans le present document de quelles facons la situation sur le plan de l'innovation par opposition a l … non-utilisateurs de telles technologies d'offrir des programmes de formation. A ce niveau, la situation sur le plan de l'innovation … entendre que l'innovation exige non pas tant de nouvelles competences propres aux professions (meme s'il ne fait aucun doute …

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Developpement du capital humain et innovation : la formation dans les petites et moyennes entreprises

Johnson, Joanne; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

, facilite par la formation, soit complementaire a l'innovation et a l'evolution technologique. En outre, la frequence de la …'utilisation de nouvelles technologies et avec de nombreuses autres strategies reliees a l'innovation. La formation occupe aussi une …

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Have Small Firms Created a Disproportionate Share of New Jobs in Canada? A Reassessment of the Facts

Picot, Garnett; Dupuy, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1994

The statistical observation that small firms have created the majority of new jobs during the 1980s has had a tremendous influence on public policy. Governmentshave looked to the small firm sector for employment growth, and have promoted policies to augment this expansion. However, recent...

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Changes in the Diversification of Canadian Manufacturing Firms and Plants (1973-1997): A Move to Specialization

Beckstead, Desmond; Caves, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

This paper studies changes in diversification of firms and plants since the early 1970s in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It finds that there has been a general increase in specialization of both firms and plants. Firms have been continuously reducing the span of industries in which they...

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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

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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Business services in Germany: bridges for innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

. 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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Biomedical Academic Entrepreneurship Through the SBIR Program

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This paper considers the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as a policy fostering academic …

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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Grimpe, Christoph; Kaiser, Ulrich - Centre for Industrial Economics (CIE), Økonomisk Institut - 2008

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An Anatomy of Growth and Decline: High-tech Industries Through the Boom and Bust Years, 1997-2003

Brown, W. Mark; Beckstead, Desmond - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

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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