Understanding the importance of the dynamic entry process in the Canadian economy involves measuring size of entry. The main purpose of this paper is to summarize the information that we have on the amount of entry in Canada. The paper also fulfills another purpose. Some studies have focused on...

This paper studies changes in diversification of firms and plants since the early 1970s in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It finds that there has been a general increase in specialization of both firms and plants. Firms have been continuously reducing the span of industries in which they...

This study explores the industrial composition of Canada's Knowledge Economy. It uses a new occupational taxonomy to identify a small set of high-knowledge industries—industries that exhibit proportionately large concentrations of knowledge workers. It then compares these high-knowledge...

This study explores the industrial dimensions of the New Economy. It examines the growth and development of industries that provide the technological and scientific foundations for the New Economy — a collection of information and communications technology (ICT) industries, both in services...

This paper examines the emergence of the knowledge economy by examining the increasing importance of high-knowledge occupations over the period 1971-1996. It reports that the importance of knowledge occupations has continuously increased over the last three decades. It also examines differences...

The Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009 was the first produced in response to a newly legislated requirement for five-yearly reports on the status of and outlook for the Great Barrier Reef. It adopted an ecosystem approach, assessing all habitats and species, ecosystem processes and major...