La presente etude traite des facteurs qui influent sur la decision de l'entreprise de former le personnel a la lumiere des donnees de plusieurs enquetes recentes de Statistique Canada, qui portaient sur l'utilisation des technologies de pointe dans les entreprises de fabrication canadiennes....

L'etude porte sur les differences observees dans les principes que respectent les entreprises innovatrices et non innovatrices. Les auteurs examinent une multitude de strategies relatives a la commercialisation, aux finances, a la production, a la gestion et aux ressources humaines afin de...

Cette etude fait partie d' une serie de documents de recherche traitant de la facon dont l'adoption de la technologie influe sur les competences des travailleurs. Dans des documents anterieurs, nous avons aborde la question sous differents angles au moyen de donnees puisees a une diversite de...

This study examines the factors influencing a firm's decision to train, using data taken from several recent Statistic Canada surveys that explore advanced technology use by Canadian manufacturing plants. Advanced technology adoption has been both rapid and pervasive, leading to concerns about...

This study investigates differences in the policies being pursued by innovative and non-innovative firms. It focuses on a broad group of strategies -- in marketing, finance, production, management and human resources and asks whether there are key areas in which the strategies being followed by...

Innovation is at the heart of economic growth and development. It is through innovation that new products are brought to market, new production processes developed and organizational change realized. Given existing cross-industry variations in structure, competitiveness and maturity, it is...

New firms are seen to play a key role in the innovation process, especially in certain key sectors of the economy. This study therefore examines the differences in the profiles of successful new firms in science-based industries and other industries. The firms that are examined are entrants who...

This study is one of a series that examines how technology adoption affects the skills of workers. Previous papers in the series have approached this issue in differentways with data from a variety of sources. Using data on the strategies and activities of small and medium-sized firms in both...

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 by innovator type and explores the complementary...

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 their many activities and strategies. The study finds...