tradeoffs between supporting R&D and supporting diffusion in the presence of limited public funds to promote innovation merit …

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 … industries in other countries. The report finds that on most innovation indicators, Canadian natural resource industries perform …

production. Of these, innovation is found to be the most important. Since research and development activity has been historically …