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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129554
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695592
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Innovation systems in transition
Fritsch, Michael; Werker, Claudia - In: Innovation and technological change in Eastern Europe : …, (pp. 5-22). 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001468539
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Innovation in manufacturing industry : an East West comparison
Fritsch, Michael; Franke, Grit; Schwirten, Christian - In: Innovation and technological change in Eastern Europe : …, (pp. 167-183). 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001468621
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328100
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328129
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328137
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328165
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328171
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328174