detailed examination of the dynamics of innovation and determinants of productivity at the firm and industry level in Canadian …The fundamental importance of skills for productivity advance is being increasingly recognized. In this article …, product market competition, and government support for R&D, training, and technical assistance are the drivers of innovation …

A key lesson from the U.S. literature on the impact of ICT on productivity is that ICT can only be effective if … that firms that implement organizational changes and introduce ICT have a higher incidence of productivity improvement …, increased sales and profits, and product and process innovation than firms that do not follow this path. Their findings suggest …

This tenth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international … perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the 1990s; the role of population growth in shaping productivity growth …

The ninth issue of the International Productivity Monitor published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …; productivity puzzles facing researchers; the link between technology use, human capital, productivity and wages; the effect of …

for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …The fourth issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains five articles. Topics covered are: recent productivity developments in the United States and Canada and implications …

capacity and technological learning but are rarely in the position to develop an innovation capability. The article shows the … innovation system (training, higher education, research, technical centres, funding). This separation of the innovation system …’ opinion, the main reason for a low innovation capability of the Chinese industry. The co-existence of these two different …

, more generally, is the impact of education on the growth of productivity in France in the medium term? Neo-classical growth … positive effect of the average number of years of schooling of the working-age population on productivity per capita in the … education has a greater impact, in the medium run, on productivity, than investing in shorter, professionalizing education. …

The productivity performance of the construction sector in Canada over the last quarter century has been dismal, with … examines productivity trends in this sector and discusses possible factors behind this situation. He notes that two drivers of … productivity growth, capital per worker and the skills level of the workforce as represented by educational attainment, have …

The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards … contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of … the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …

the study of productivity trends in the OECD area. In this article, Dirk Pilat, a senior economist at the OECD provides an … highest level of GDP per capita in the OECD area; the gap between the aggregate productivity level in the United States and in … other OECD countries increased in the 1990s after falling up to then, reflecting the rebound in U.S. productivity growth, a …