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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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Government Policies to Encourage University-Business Research Collaboration in Canada: Lessons from the US, the UK and Australia

Currie, Ian - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011

This report reviews findings from the research literature on motivations for, barriers to, and determinants of university-business (U-B) research collaboration. It examines how U-B research collaboration is measured and Canada‘s international ranking. It describes public policy measures for...

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Productivity Trends in the Construction Sector in Canada: A Case of Lagging Technical Progress

Standards, Centre for the Study of Living - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2001

Both labour and total factor productivity growth in the total and residential construction sectors in Canada have been negative over the past two decades. This report provides a detailed examination of output, employment, and productivity trends in the construction sector in Canada and by...

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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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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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A Detailed Analysis of Productivity Trends in the Canadian Forest Products Sector

Avillez, Ricardo de - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2014

The Canadian forest products sector has had an above-average productivity performance in the 2000-2012 period, driven in particular by the wood product manufacturing subsector. While the forestry and logging subsector has also benefited from strong productivity gains, the productivity...

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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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The Linkages Between Productivity and Social Progress: An Introduction and Overview

Banting, Keith; Sharpe, Andrew; St-Hilaire, France - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given inadequate attention to the broader ramifications of productivity, both in terms of shedding light on the importance of productivity for the advancement of various aspects of social...

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