The fundamental importance of skills for productivity advance is being increasingly recognized. In this article, Someshwar Rao, Jianmin Tang and Weimin Wang of Industry Canada provide additional evidence of this relationship through a detailed examination of the dynamics of innovation and...

What can studying the creation of knowledge tell us about how new technical fields emerge and develop? This paper shows how a knowledge community may be necessary to support the legitimacy of new products that undergo performance evaluation before purchase. Using historical and ethnographic data...

French Abstract: Entre 1950 et 1973, un processus de convergence absolue entre les États-Unis, considéréscomme les leaders technologiques du monde, et les pays d'Europe de l'Ouest et le Japon étaitobservable. Mais ce processus progressivement s'est atténué pour disparaitre...

Trend productivity growth is a crucial determinant of future living standards as well as fiscal balances. In this article, Benoit Robidoux and Bing-Sun Wong from Finance Canada examine the issue of whether trend productivity growth has increased in Canada and conclude that in fact it has. If...

The factors behind the emergence of the New Economy are still poorly understood. In this article, Pascal Petit from CEPREMAP and CNRS in France provides an institutional perspective on the developmental phases or roots of this New Economy. He analyzes the structural, institutional and...

Nous analysons dans quelle mesure la formation peut atténuer les effets défavorables, pour l’emploi des seniors, des changements technologiques et organisationnels. À partir d’un panel d’entreprises françaises suivies sur la seconde moitié des années 1990, nous confirmons le...

This article examines the technology transfer-based partnerships between public research organisations (sources of knowledge, innovation and technology) and users (firms, public administrations, etc.) as dynamic processes for a mutual learning. This process can provide for the R&D organisations...

Based on the example of the automobile and electronics sector in China, the article examines the technological learning of companies in China and the way it is influenced by industrial policy. Companies have consolidated their production capacity and technological learning but are rarely in the...