In this paper we analyse the decision of firms in the Canadian manufacturing sectorto co-operate on innovation projects …. Our focus is on the motives behind this decisionand the firm characteristics, both general and with respect to innovation … activities,which influence the motives for innovation co-operation. Using data from theCanadian Survey of Innovation 2005 we find …

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. theorganizational processes through …