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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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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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Understanding the Innovation Process: Innovation in Dynamic Service Industries

Gellatly, Guy; Peters, Valerie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2000

In studies of business innovation, the term innovation process is used to describe (i) the array of sources and … objectives that culminate in the act of innovation, (ii) the set of market effects that result from innovation, and (iii) the … obstacles that firms encounter when pursuing innovation strategies. An examination of the innovation process is thus designed to …

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XECON: An Experimental / Evolutionary Model of Economic Growth

Wolfson, Michael - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

The role of technical innovation in economic growth is both a current matter of keen public policy interest, and active …

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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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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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Training as a Human Resource Strategy: The Response to Staff Shortages and Technological Change

Baldwin, John R.; Peters, Valerie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

This paper examines the ways that innovation status as opposed to technology use affects the training activities of … programs than non-users. Here, innovation status within the group of technology users also affects the training decision. In … equipment by extensively implementing training that is highly firm-specific. This suggests that innovation requires new skills …

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Impediments to Advanced Technology Adoption for Canadian Manufacturers

Lin, Zhengxi; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

innovation involves a learning process. Innovators and technology users face problems that they have to solve and the more … impediments in technology and other related surveys (innovation) should not be interpreted as impenetrable barriers that prevent …

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