highly persistent. Moreover benefits (in terms of productivity) resulting from innovation are differentiated according to the …' innovation behaviours can be analysed and exploited in order to assess the technological performance of the economy. Three … empirical applications using French data are derived from the previous argument. Our results show first that innovation is …

detailed examination of the dynamics of innovation and determinants of productivity at the firm and industry level in Canadian …The fundamental importance of skills for productivity advance is being increasingly recognized. In this article …, product market competition, and government support for R&D, training, and technical assistance are the drivers of innovation …

Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq … positive relationship between measures of fundamental innovation, labour productivity and GDP per capita across OECD countries …. The authors paint a nuanced portrait of Canada's innovation performance. The existence of an innovation gap with the …

this issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented …

Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has …-US labour productivity gap. The authors find that the growth in the gap largely reflects the acceleration of productivity growth … weaker productivity growth. It is estimated that these two factors themselves account for 70 per cent of the widening of the …

for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications …

.S. productivity levels during the postwar period and finds strong evidence for this phenomenon up to 1990, with rapid growth in … the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States, and perhaps most important, the acceleration of productivity …

, tels que l’accroissement de la recherche et développement, la promotion de l’innovation, la baisse du poids de la fiscalité …

International productivity comparisons have traditionally focused on productivity growth rates. International … productivity level comparisons are much more complex, requiring comparable industry data and estimates of purchasing power at a … detailed industry level. The International Comparisons of Output and Productivity (ICOP) project established at the University …