required for the Accounts should incorporate a broad range of science-based innovation costs and that this broader R&D concept … science-based innovation expenditures are to be capitalized, GDP will increase. But it appears that Canada's innovation system … is directed more towards non-R&D science-based expenditures than the innovation systems of many other countries. If …

The strategies and competencies of small and medium-sized firms are explored here using the responses to the Survey of … Growing Small and Medium Size Enterprises, conducted by Statistics Canada. The paper classifies small and medium-sized firms … human resources, management, marketing and finance that are possessed by firms in each group are examined. Firms are …

humaines et du financement, de meme que le succes de chaque type d'innovateur. Une taxonomie des types d'innovation est …'enquete liees a l'innovation. Ces groupes correspondent a differents stades du cycle de vie des produits. Au premier stade, les … selon les types d'innovation. Les innovateurs complets ont tendance a acquerir des competences superieures a celles des …

This study investigates differences in the policies being pursued by innovative and non-innovative firms. It focuses on … are key areas in which the strategies being followed by innovative and non-innovative firms differ. It also asks how the … activities of firms in each of these areas differs. Finally, it compares the performance of innovative and non-innovative firms …

firms as either growing or declining. We then asked how differences in competencies were related to the performance of firms. …