In 2005, the CSLS published a report that examined spending on information and communication technology (ICT) in Canada … and the United States between 1987 and 2004. It found that Canadian firms lagged considerably behind US firms in ICT … report provides an overview of the latest developments using the most recent update of the CSLS ICT database. It finds that …

(ICT) investment by province. Given the importance of ICT investment for productivity growth, these data are important for … the basic data on ICT investment and ICT investment per worker in Canada and the ten provinces over the 1981-2007 period …. The first part of the report reviews the literature on why ICT investment is important for productivity. The second part …

&D and information and communications technology (ICT) investment. The objective of this report is to examine the country …’s ICT investment performance since 2000. The key finding is that, since the 2008 peak, business sector ICT investment in … States. By 2013, four years after the 2009 recession, nominal ICT investment in the business sector in Canada had failed to …

(ICT) and productivity in the Canadian economy.The key conclusion of the report is that ICT has been the driving force … behind the acceleration of productivity growth in Canada and the United States since 1996. However, the potential of ICT has … not been fully exploited and we will continue to see significant ICT contributions to productivity growth in coming years …

. What is less well know is that it is information and communications technology (ICT) investment that largely accounts for … this gap. The author documents trends in ICT investment in both Canada and the United States and attempts to explain why … ICT investment per worker in the Canadian business sector in 2004 was only 45 per cent of that in the US business sector …