Canada. Key gaps include the identification of leading and lagging industries in terms of adoption; key barriers to … technological diffusion in Canada including economic-policy-related barriers; appropriate direct policy interventions to overcome … diffusion in Canada; and specific challenges small and medium enterprises face in adopting technology. Another issue requiring …

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 … Canadian natural resource industries is also compared with the average for all industries in Canada and with natural resource …

considered of particular interest to Canada – the United States, Australia, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Sweden … – and comments on possible lessons for Canada from these experiences. …

behind the acceleration of productivity growth in Canada and the United States since 1996. However, the potential of ICT has …

Both labour and total factor productivity growth in the total and residential construction sectors in Canada have been … in the construction sector in Canada and by province, with particular attention to the residential construction sector …

The objectives of this report are to examine the characteristics of manufacturing in Atlantic Canada and to shed light … on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined …

This report aims to accomplish three objectives: provide an assessment of Canada’s productivity performance; provide a … Institute; and develop a framework for unbundling slow productivity growth in Canada and the widening productivity gap with the …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … Economic Performance and Social Progress is to attempt to fill, at least in part, the lacuna in the literature in Canada on … trends in Canada and OECD countries. The two papers in the second section examine the impact productivity has on government …

Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …

In this chapter, Don Drummond makes the case that with large deficits there was little room for the Bank of Canada to … argues that the elimination of the deficit has reduced risk premia and allowed the Bank of Canada to bring interest rates …