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Innovation, Survival and Performance of Canadian Manufacturing Plants

Baldwin, John R.; Gu, Wulong - 2009

This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market … share and survival in the Canadian manufacturing sector. The paper presents a model that examines the effect of innovation … plant performance both before and after the introduction of an innovation. We find strong evidence that labour productivity …

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Business Strategies in Innovative and Non-Innovative Firms in Canada

Baldwin, John R.; Johnson, Joanne - 2000

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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Technology Use and Industrial Transformation : Empirical Perspectives

Baldwin, John R.; Diverty, Brent; Sabourin, David - 1998

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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Innovation Capabilities : Technology Use, Productivity Growth and Business Performance: Evidence from Canadian Technology Surveys

Baldwin, John R. - 2015

This paper summarizes the results of several research studies conducted by the Micro-economic Analysis Division of Statistics Canada that investigate the impact of advanced technology use on business performance. These studies combine establishment-level survey data on advanced technology...

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Connecting to Power : Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics

Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Lotti, Francesca - 2018

Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their … confirm using a regression discontinuity design. We build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation …

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Innovation Capabilities : The Knowledge Capital Behind the Survival and Growth of Firms

Baldwin, John R. - 2013

This paper summarizes the findings of a research program aimed at outlining the importance to the firm growth process of competencies that arise from investments in intangible assets. The program has consisted of two parts. First, longitudinal databases have provided a rich set of studies on...

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Connecting to power : political connections, innovation, and firm dynamics

Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Lotti, Francesca - 2022

How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We extend a Schumpeterian … how political connections influence an economy's business dynamism and innovation, and generate a number of implications …

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Advanced Technology Use in Canadian Manufacturing Establishments

Baldwin, John R. - 1998

This paper investigates the characteristics of Canadian manufacturing plants that are related to the use of advanced technologies. The data used are taken from the 1989 Survey of Manufacturing Technology and are linked to administrative data taken from the Census of Manufacturers. Technology use...

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Connecting to power : political connections, innovation, and firm dynamics

Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Lotti, Francesca - 2020

How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we … build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their …

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Innovation network

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Kerr, William R. - 2016

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