strongly appeal to policy-makers in science, technology and innovation policy. It will also benefit students and academics … interested in innovation, science, technology and innovation policy, the economics of innovation, as well as the history and …

This paper evaluates the importance of innovation spending for understanding Canada-U.S. firm size and productivity … differences. A standard model of heterogenous producers, amended to include a channel for innovation, is calibrated to the U.S. to … serve as a benchmark. Canadian specific features related to innovation, namely tax/subsidy policy, regulatory burden and …

This paper examines the role of collaborative technical activity in the innovation performance of Canadian and US … companies in the geographic information systems (GIS) industry. This young but rapidly growing sector produces specialised … innovation is strongly dependent upon in-house R&D. The results also suggest that a firms propensity to operate within a …

This study examined the climate for innovation and creativity, and related outcome measures, in 31 Canadian and 11 US … Encouragement) were the same for both the USA and Canada. Our conclusion is that support for innovation in Canadian SMEs is … comparable with that of US SMEs. Differences in innovation measured at the national level can probably be attributed to other …