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Room Utilization in the Traveler Accomodation Industry.
McKeown, L.; Lee, S.; Lynch, M. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999
Both personal and business travel have seasonal patterns that lead to variations in the demand for hotels, motels and other accomodation services. This article examines seasonal fluctuations experiences by Canada's traveller accomodation industry in 1996. It then focuses on monthly variations in...
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Leasing Services Industries in the 1990s.
Smadella, R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999
Leasing, rather than buying, is ingreasingly becoming an attractive option for both consumers and businesses. This article looks at the industries that rent or lease: automobiles and trucks; and machinery and equipment. In some instances, the focus turns to the sub-industries comprising these...
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L'industrie canadienne des services funeraires dans les annees 90.
Rotermann, M. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001
Ce document examine le rendement de l'industrie des services funeraires, la structure de ses couts et certaines des caracteristiques de sa main d'oeuvre. Les variables utilisees comprennent le nombre d'entreprises, les depenses d'industrie par categorie, les taux de creation et d'abandon...
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Innovation in the Engineering Services Industry.
Hamdani, D. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2000
succeed. The 1997 Survey of Innovation was the first to look at innovation in selected knowledge-based and information …-intensive services industries. This article presents estimates of innovation in the engineering services industry over the 1994 to 1996 … period. The survey findings show that large firms are very innovative, but that innovation rates are low among small firms …
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Effet de l'utilisation des technologies de pointe sur le rendement des entreprises du secteur canadien de la transformation des aliments
Sabourin, David; Baldwin, John R.; Smith, David - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003
Dans ce document, on etudie l'evolution de la structure industrielle du secteur canadien de la transformation des aliments et le lien entre cette evolution et le changement technologique. On utilise egalement les donnees d'une enquete speciale menee en 1998 sur l'utilisation de la technologie de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523557
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Innovation Capabilities: Comparing Science and Engineering Employment in Canadian and U.S. Cities
Brown, W. Mark; Beckstead, Desmond - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
In recent years, cities have become increasingly interested in their ability to generate, attract and retain human capital. One measure of human capital is employment in science- and engineering-based occupations. This paper provides a comparison of the employment shares of these specialized...
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Capacites d'innovation : le capital de savoir, gage de survie et de croissance des entreprises
Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
Le present document decrit les constatations tirees d'un programme de recherche visant a souligner l'importance des competences qui decoulent des investissements dans l'actif incorporel pour le processus de croissance des entreprises. Le programme comportait deux parties. Premierement, des bases...
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Differences in Strategies and Performances of Different Types of Innovators
Johnson, Joanne; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998
-innovators-based on their responses to 22 innovation-related questions on the survey. These groups correspond to different stages in the … production technology. The competencies of firms differ across these innovative types. Comprehensive innovators tend to develop … capital. In later stages of the innovation life cycle-comprehensive and process innovators place great emphasis on higher debt …
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Differences dans les strategies et le rendement de divers types d'innovateurs
Johnson, Joanne; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998
humaines et du financement, de meme que le succes de chaque type d'innovateur. Une taxonomie des types d'innovation est …'enquete liees a l'innovation. Ces groupes correspondent a differents stades du cycle de vie des produits. Au premier stade, les … selon les types d'innovation. Les innovateurs complets ont tendance a acquerir des competences superieures a celles des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170062
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Capacites d'innovation : comparaison de l'emploi en sciences et en genie dans les villes canadiennes et americaines
Brown, W. Mark; Beckstead, Desmond - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
Ces dernieres annees, les villes ont accorde un interet croissant a leur capacite de generer, d'attirer et de retenir leur capital humain. Une mesure de ce capital est l'emploi dans les professions liees aux sciences et au genie. Nous comparons la part de l'emploi attribuable a ces professions...
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