This paper examines the factors contributing to the adoption of advanced technologies in the Canadian food …. The benefits of enhanced food safety and quality, as well as productivity improvements, are closely associated with … and vegetable and "other" food product industries. …

This paper investigates the evolution of industrial structure in the Canadian food processing sector and its …

This paper investigates the evolution of industrial structure in the Canadian food processing sector and its … relationship to technological change. It does so by examining the impact of adopting advanced manufacturing technologies, amongst … control and network communications technologies are particularly important to productivity growth in the food …

entire Canadian economy and the manufacturing sector, the growth rate of (net) employment decreases monotonically as the size … tremendous influence on public policy. Governments have looked to the small firm sector for employment growth and have promoted … employment increase over the period. Measurement does matter, however, as the magnitude of the difference in the growth rates of …

This paper investigates the dynamics of job reallocation in the manufacturing sector of Canada. It does so by examining …

the share of employment accounted for by small firms has increased in the past two decades. Both of these sources rely on … a simple metric--employment. This paper asks whether changes in this metric affect the view of the role that small firms … play in the growth process. The first section of the paper maintains employment as the measure that is used to evaluate the …