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This study examines the factors influencing a firm's decision to train, using data taken from several recent Statistic Canada surveys that explore advanced technology use by Canadian manufacturing plants. Advanced technology adoption has been both rapid and pervasive, leading to concerns about...
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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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. First, it constitutes a multidimensional approach to industry classification. As different concepts - such as innovation …
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This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …
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competition-the so-called Schumpeterian hypothesis. Third, the effect of the nationality of a firm on innovation is investigated … innovations. Establishments in the 'other' food products industry tend to lead when it comes to innovation, whereas fish product …
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aux fins du SCN devrait inclure une vaste gamme de couts d'innovation dans le domaine des sciences et que ce concept plus … rapport a celui des Etats Unis. Si toutes les depenses au titre de l'innovation dans le domaine des sciences sont capitalisees …, le PIB augmentera. Cependant, il semble que le systeme d'innovation au Canada est axe davantage sur les depenses autres …
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connexes sur l'evolution technologique et l'innovation ont mene a l'elaboration de systemes visant a classer les secteurs d … tiennent pas compte du degre d'innovation, ni des competences du capital humain que l'on retrouve dans certains secteurs d …
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Le present document analyse les caracteristiques des usines canadiennes de fabrication qui sont associees a l'utilisation des technologies de pointe. Les donnees employees sont tirees de l'Enquete sur les technologies de la fabrication de 1989 et sont liees aux donnees administratives du...
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d'innovation. On pretend souvent que les petites entreprises ont tendance a utiliser les installations de R et D … document, on compare les profils d'innovation des petites et des grandes entreprises, et on examine la variation de l … obstacles a l'innovation auxquels elles se heurtent. La tendance a innover et a utiliser les installations de R et D des …
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focus the different roles that are played by large and small firms in the innovation process. Small firms, it is often … programs that are directed at this sector. This paper examines the differences in the innovation profiles of small and large … appropriate to reduce the impediments to innovation that they face. The paper finds a number of differences between large and …
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