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knowledge spillovers, especially those occurring at the national level. Wind and solar technologies exhibit distinct innovation … innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy … technologies or sectors (inter-sectoral spillovers), or at the international level. We find that innovation is strongly driven by …
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This paper investigates how changes in technology use of individual plants in the Canadian manufacturing sector are related to two measures of performance --productivity growth and market-share growth.
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This paper examines the ways that innovation status as opposed to technology use affects the training activities of … programs than non-users. Here, innovation status within the group of technology users also affects the training decision. In … equipment by extensively implementing training that is highly firm-specific. This suggests that innovation requires new skills …
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impact on innovation in the economy. Experimentation is important in a dynamic, market-based economy. A key part of the … worker skills, which is partially related to training, complements innovation and contributes to growth. …
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facilitated by training is complementary to innovation and technological change. Training incidence is found to be closely related … strategies that are related to innovation. Training is also greater where a firm emphasizes quality and a comprehensive human …
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-income countries managed to catch up or fall behind depended mainly on their ability to develop their 'innovation system'. …
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Cet article porte sur le lien entre l'evolution de l'utilisation des technologies par les differents etablissements du secteur de la fabrication au Canada et deux mesures du rendement, soit la croissance de la productivite et la croissance de la part de marche.
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connexes sur l'evolution technologique et l'innovation ont mene a l'elaboration de systemes visant a classer les secteurs d … tiennent pas compte du degre d'innovation, ni des competences du capital humain que l'on retrouve dans certains secteurs d …
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Le present document de recherche etudie les changements observes au niveau de la diversification des entreprises et des usines depuis le debut des annees 70 dans le secteur canadien de la fabrication. Il revele qu'il y a eu, en general, une augmentation de la specialisation tant des entreprises...
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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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