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 …

sourcing for advanced technologies and improvements in the information available to firms about advanced technologies. It is …

frequently distinguishes faster from slower growing firms is innovation. Innovators in turn place greater emphasis on training …This paper describes the evidence that several Statistics Canada studies have developed on the importance of innovation … to growth and the need for highly skilled workers in the innovation process. Rather than focusing on broad industry …

are those who rely upon customers and suppliers for their sources of ideas for innovation. Large firms, by way of contrast … 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 …

found to be much stronger going from innovation to patent use than from patent use to innovation. Firms that innovate take …, intermediate levels of competition are the most conducive to innovation. Fourth, foreign-controlled firms are not significantly …, it investigates the extent to which intellectual property right protection stimulates innovation. Second, it examines the …

ideas than are domestically owned firms, their local R&D unit is a more important source of information for innovation than … local innovation consortia as are domestically owned firms. This evidence indicates that multinationals in Canada are not … to domestically owned firms. A comparison of the extent and impact of innovation activity of domestically and foreign …

between the more- and the less-successful firms better than any other variable. Almost all of the strategy questions that … relate to innovative activity receive higher scores from the more-successful group of firms than from the less …-successful group of firms. This is also the case for innovative activities--whether a firm possesses an R&D unit, its expenditure on R …

This study examines the characteristics of small and medium- sized firms that perform training. It uses data taken from … a recent Statistics Canada survey that permit firms' training decisions to be analyzed within the broader context of … facilitated by training is complementary to innovation and technological change. Training incidence is found to be closely related …

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