facilitated by training is complementary to innovation and technological change. Training incidence is found to be closely related … strategies that are related to innovation. Training is also greater where a firm emphasizes quality and a comprehensive human …

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 …

that are played by large and small firms in the innovation process. Small firms, it is often claimed, have different … at this sector. This paper examines the differences in the innovation profiles of small and large firms, and how R … impediments to innovation that they face. The paper finds a number of differences between large and small firms in the tendency to …