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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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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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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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Eco-innovation and firm growth: do green gazelles run faster? : microeconometric evidence from a sample of European firms

Colombelli, Alessandra; Krafft, Jackie; Quatraro, Francesco - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of eco-innovation on firms' growth processes, with a special focus on gazelles, i … effects of generic innovation on firms' growth, and this is particularly true for gazelles, which actually appear to run …

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The economics of knowledge, innovation and systemic technology policy

Crespi, Francesco (ed.); Quatraro, Francesco (ed.) - 2015

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The Effect of Changing Technology Use on Plant Performance in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector

Baldwin, John R.; Sabourin, David - 2009

, probably through its impact on product innovation. The market rewards those businesses that managed to improve their efficiency …

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Industrial Competition, Shifts in Market Share and Productivity Growth

Baldwin, John R.; Gu, Wulong - 2009

This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of turnover - the process that shifts output from one firm to another as a result of the competitive process. Turnover occurs because some firms gain market share and others lose it. Some turnover is due to entry and...

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Death of Canadian Manufacturing Plants : Heterogeneous Responses to Changes in Tariffs and Real Exchange Rates

Baldwin, John R. - 2010

We examine the simultaneous effects of real-exchange-rate movements and of tariff reductions on plant death in Canadian manufacturing industries between 1979 and 1996. We find that both currency appreciation and tariff cuts increase the probability of plant death, but that tariff reductions have...

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Emergence and evolution of new industries: The path-dependent dynamics of knowledge creation. An introduction to the special section

Krafft, Jackie; Lechevalier, Sebastien; Quatraro, Francesco - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 10, pp. 1663-1665

In this introduction, we review the arguments that underpin the rationale for the special section, and provide a structured sequence for the contents of the six selected papers that comprise the section.

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