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The Importance of Research and Development for Innovation in Small and Large Canadian Manufacturing Firms
Baldwin, John R. - 1998
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215589
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208748
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039511
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095925
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Exchange Rate Cycles and Canada/US Manufacturing Prices
Baldwin, John R.; Yan, Beiling - 2009
The paper examines the industry characteristics that are related to the shifts in competitiveness, measured as the relative common-currency price ratios between Canadian and US manufacturing prices. We find that relative input costs and relative productivity growth are the two most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202482
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Death in the Industrial World : Plant Closures and Capital Retirement
Baldwin, John R. - 2009
Plant deaths arise from failure when firms exit an industry. Plant deaths are also associated with renewal when incumbent firms close down plants and modernize their production facilities and start-up new plants. The rate of plant deaths affects the amount of change that occurs in labour and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209184
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Domestic and Foreign Influences on Canadian Prices Over Exchange Rate Cycles, 1974 to 1996
Baldwin, John R.; Yan, Beiling - 2009
The paper examines the pricing behaviour of 81 Canadian manufacturing industries from 1974 to 1996. It explores the domestic and foreign factors that affect price formation in Canada and the circumstances in which Canadian prices respond to foreign (U.S.) influences (the law of one price), as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209431
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Exchange Rate Cycles and Canada - U.S. Manufacturing Prices
Baldwin, John R.; Yan, Beiling - 2009
During the post-1970 period, Canadian manufacturing prices have alternately increased and fallen relative to U.S. prices - just the reverse of the cycle in the Canada - U.S. exchange rate. But not all manufacturing industries have experienced the same amplitude of relative price changes. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209434
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The Determinants of the Adoption Lag for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
Baldwin, John R.; Rafiquzzaman, Mohammed - 2012
collected from the 1993 Survey of Innovation and Advanced Technology concerning firms' own evaluations of the benefits and costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210364
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Export Growth, Capacity Utilization and Productivity Growth : Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Plants
Baldwin, John R.; Gu, Wulong; Yan, Beiling - 2012
Labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector slowed substantially after 2000. Most of the slowdown occurred in the manufacturing sector. This paper examines how this slowdown was associated with the restructuring that occurred in manufacturing as a result of the increase in excess...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014172482