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The Diffusion and Adoption of Advanced Technologies in Canada: An Overview of the Issues

Gafni, Elad - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

tradeoffs between supporting R&D and supporting diffusion in the presence of limited public funds to promote innovation merit …

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Indicators of Innovation in Canadian Natural Resource Industries

Sharpe, Andrew; Guibaud, Olivier - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

This report develops a set of indicators of innovation in a number of the natural resource industries in Canada. It … then uses these indicators to assess trends in innovation over time in these industries. The innovative performance of … industries in other countries. The report finds that on most innovation indicators, Canadian natural resource industries perform …

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The Canada-Atlantic Canada Manufacturing Productivity Gap: A Detailed Analysis

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

production. Of these, innovation is found to be the most important. Since research and development activity has been historically …

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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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In brief: Two cheers for Anglo-Saxon financial markets?

Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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Measuring the Cost Effectiveness of an R&D Tax Credit for the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

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Measuring the Impact of Research on Well-being: A Survey of Indicators of Well-being

Sharpe, Andrew; Smith, Jeremy - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

The main objective of this report is to conduct a survey and assessment of various indicators used by organizations, both in Canada and abroad, to measure attributes and the well-being of society at the economic, health, environmental, social, and cultural levels. The compilation includes a...

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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...

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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...

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