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Geographic Market Access and the Effects of Trade on Length of Production Run, Product Diversity and Plant Scale of Canadian Manufacturing Plants, 1974 to 1999

Baldwin, John R. - 2009

Over the past three decades, tariff barriers have fallen significantly, leading to an increasing integration of Canadian manufactures into world markets and especially the U.S. market. Much attention has been paid to the effects of this shift at the national scale, while little attention has...

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Differences in Strategies and Performances of Different Types of Innovators

Johnson, Joanne; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998

-innovators-based on their responses to 22 innovation-related questions on the survey. These groups correspond to different stages in the … capital. In later stages of the innovation life cycle-comprehensive and process innovators place great emphasis on higher debt …

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Impact of Advanced Technology Use on Firm Performance in the Canadian Food Processing Sector

Sabourin, David; Baldwin, John R.; Smith, David - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

This paper investigates the evolution of industrial structure in the Canadian food processing sector and its relationship to technological change. It uses 1998 special survey data on advanced technology use, plant characteristics and plant performance.

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Business Strategies in Innovative and Non-innovative Firms in Canada

Johnson, Joanne; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

This study investigates differences in the policies being pursued by innovative and non-innovative firms. It focuses on a broad group of strategies -- in marketing, finance, production, management and human resources and asks whether there are key areas in which the strategies being followed by...

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Innovation: The Key to Success in Small Firms

Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

This study examines the differences in strategies and activities pursued by a sample of more-successful and less-successful group of growing small- and medium-sized enterprises. Amongst other matters, it examines different functional strategies -- the importance of management, human resource...

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Technology Adoption: A Comparison Between Canada and the United States

Sabourin, David; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

This study examines differences in technology use in Canada as opposed to the United States as well as reasons for these differences. It examines different aspects of technology use-numbers of technologies used, types of technologies used, as well as regional, size and industry variations in...

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Have Small Firms Created a Disproportionate Share of New Jobs in Canada? A Reassessment of the Facts

Picot, Garnett; Dupuy, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1994

The statistical observation that small firms have created the majority of new jobs during the 1980s has had a tremendous influence on public policy. Governmentshave looked to the small firm sector for employment growth, and have promoted policies to augment this expansion. However, recent...

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Technology Use and Industrial Transformation: Empirical Perspectives

Sabourin, David; Baldwin, John R.; Diverty, Brent - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

This study examines technology use in Canada's manufacturing sector, and how a set of technology-using manufacturing establishments performed relative to non-users. Data originates from a recent Statistics Canada survey, asking manufacturing firms about their use of 22 advanced manufacturing...

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Changes in the Diversification of Canadian Manufacturing Firms and Plants (1973-1997): A Move to Specialization

Beckstead, Desmond; Caves, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

This paper studies changes in diversification of firms and plants since the early 1970s in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It finds that there has been a general increase in specialization of both firms and plants. Firms have been continuously reducing the span of industries in which they...

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The Importance of Research and Development for Innovation in Small and Large Canadian Manufacturing Firms

Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1997

focus the different roles that are played by large and small firms in the innovation process. Small firms, it is often … programs that are directed at this sector. This paper examines the differences in the innovation profiles of small and large … appropriate to reduce the impediments to innovation that they face. The paper finds a number of differences between large and …

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