research monograph entitled Industry-level Productivity and International Competitiveness Between Canada and the United States …

Research on innovation processes suggests that the most significant activities and decisions are made in the initiation … phase, i.e., what is often termed as the “fuzzy front-end” (FFE) of innovation, and at the finalization phase, i …. This paper presents a comparison and analysis of innovation practices in a sample of 473 Nordic, Asian, and Euro …

for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …