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The Diffusion and Adoption of Advanced Technologies in Canada: An Overview of the Issues

Gafni, Elad - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

tradeoffs between supporting R&D and supporting diffusion in the presence of limited public funds to promote innovation merit …

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Indicators of Innovation in Canadian Natural Resource Industries

Sharpe, Andrew; Guibaud, Olivier - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

This report develops a set of indicators of innovation in a number of the natural resource industries in Canada. It … then uses these indicators to assess trends in innovation over time in these industries. The innovative performance of … industries in other countries. The report finds that on most innovation indicators, Canadian natural resource industries perform …

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The Canada-Atlantic Canada Manufacturing Productivity Gap: A Detailed Analysis

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

production. Of these, innovation is found to be the most important. Since research and development activity has been historically …

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Evaluating A Program of Public Funding of Private Innovation Activities. An Econometric Study of FONTAR in Argentina.

Chudnovsky, Daniel; López, Andrés; Rossi, Martín; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

The paper contains and impact evaluation of matching grants to promote investments in innovation on firm financed R …

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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...

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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...

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Measuring the Impact of Research on Well-being: A Survey of Indicators of Well-being

Sharpe, Andrew; Smith, Jeremy - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

The main objective of this report is to conduct a survey and assessment of various indicators used by organizations, both in Canada and abroad, to measure attributes and the well-being of society at the economic, health, environmental, social, and cultural levels. The compilation includes a...

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Innovation Policy for Development: An Overview

Trajtenberg, Manuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

This presentation on innovation policy development broadens the notion of innovation to include all sorts of "process … innovations" and organizational changes. Then it describes innovation and growth in a historical perspective to conclude that … innovation policies for development should include much more than just supporting formal R&D projects, more than just in "high …

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Innovation Strategies and Employment in Latin American Firms

Crespi, Gustavo; Zuñiga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro-data for manufacturing firms from innovation surveys. Building on the … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only …

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Firm innovation and productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean : the engine of economic development

Grazzi, Matteo (ed.); Pietrobelli, Carlo (ed.) - 2016

examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to … Innovation Dynamics and Productivity: Evidence for Latin America -- 3 Innovative Activity in the Caribbean: Drivers, Benefits …, and Obstacles -- 4 ICT, Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from Firms in Latin America and the Caribbean -- 5 On …

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