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 …

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 …

additional improvements. We conclude that the state of U.S. data for services industry productivity measurement is far better … of the services sector in GDP and its importance as a contributor to recent productivity advance justifies a further …

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 …

This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international … perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the 1990s; the role of population growth in shaping productivity growth …

The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between technology use, human capital, productivity and wages; the effect of …