not patents affect the direction of research but that scientists’ understanding of patent law; their recent experience …

for industrial creativity that can rival the northeast. This study shows that this viewpoint, based on patent activity, is …

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builds upon the simultaneous nature and almost interchangeable relationship between innovation, imitation and invention. …The paper examines the challenges social scientists face when analysing innovation, especially R&D and innovation … activities of firms, i.e. their strategies in typical stages of an innovation process in a defined economy. The motivation behind …

related to the empirical analysis oftechnology innovation and diffusion. Finally,we conclude in Part 4 with some …

. The authors paint a nuanced portrait of Canada's innovation performance. The existence of an innovation gap with the …Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq … Ahmad, William Horsman, and Phaedra Kaptein-Russell of Industry Canada provides support for this view by finding a strong …

Canada-US manufacturing productivity gap. Since 1994, labour productivity growth in manufacturing in the United States has … greatly exceeded that recorded in Canada. Output per hour in Canada fell 20 percentage points from 87 per cent of the US level … in 1994 to 67 per cent in 2001. This development has been responsible for most of the widening of the aggregate Canada …