The knowledge-based economy has emphasised the role of human capital and the relevance of formal education. This study analyses university achievement and gives a quantitative description of Quebec and Ontario university systems. Comparative differences by educational levels and fields of...

In just several years, Israel developed a strong venture capital industry that places it among the top countries in terms of capital-GDP ratio. The strategy of the Israeli government was twofold. First, the government strongly stimulated the demand for venture capital, using R&D grants,...

This description, produced within the CIRANO research program on productivity, seeks to unearth the innovative economic policies that could be adapted to the Quebec context. To better understand these innovations, the cases of Bavaria, Ireland, and New-Zealand were studied and lessons for Quebec...

L'intérêt pour les logiciels libres de bureautique, bien que relativement tardif par rapport à celui porté aux autres types de logiciels libres, croît très rapidement. Et ce, du fait que ce sont de grandes organisations, en particulier des administrations (municipales, régionales,...

This report defines a framework to evaluate and collect data on incidents and accidents occurring in hospitals and to create database at local and national level. Our goals are: 1) to provide a structure for thorough analysis within the hospitals that can be used with the already existing tools...

Using landing records data on all immigrants who have landed in Canada since 1980, this paper examines the extent to which the relative change in the weighting and in the composition of the evaluation grid in Quebec in 1996 has improved the relative skill level of the immigrants settling in...

In this paper, we present the different cost sharing methods one can find in the economic literature. We regroup the methods into three sets : the proportional methods, the cooperative game theory methods and the serial cost sharing methods. All those methods are presented through the stylized...