required for the Accounts should incorporate a broad range of science-based innovation costs and that this broader R&D concept …. If all science-based innovation expenditures are to be capitalized, GDP will increase. But it appears that Canada …'s innovation system is directed more towards non-R&D science-based expenditures than the innovation systems of many other countries …

Le role de l'innovation technique dans la croissance economique est a la fois une question qui interesse beaucoup la …

, it investigates the extent to which intellectual property right protection stimulates innovation. Second, it examines the … contribution that R&D makes to innovation. Third, it considers the importance of various competencies in the area of marketing …, human resource, technology and production to the innovation process. Fourth, it examines the extent to which a larger firm …

innovation within the small firm population. Forty percent of small businesses report introducing new or improved products …, processes or organizational forms. Among these businesses, product innovation dominates over process or organizational change. A … majority of these establishments reveal an ongoing commitment to innovation programs by introducing innovations on a regular …

This paper describes the evidence that several Statistics Canada studies have developed on the importance of innovation … to growth and the need for highly skilled workers in the innovation process. Rather than focusing on broad industry … frequently distinguishes faster from slower growing firms is innovation. Innovators in turn place greater emphasis on training …