Since science policy decision-makers have emphasized the industrial relevance of public research institutions, new indicators have been developed. This paper compares these indicators to determine their quality, validity, reliance, and exhaustivity. Above all, it is aimed at checking out the...

The possibility is examined of diffusing and adapting bibliometric methods to technical literature for the measurement of technological output. The first part deals with existing methods in the treatment of such literature for the generation of technology indicators, which consists mainly in the...

The role of public demand on innovation is the central theme of this exploratory study which tries to evaluate the weight of the canadian public sector as 1) first user of innovation; 2) user of inventions patented by Canadians; 3) buyer of manufactured products, 25% of innovations find their...

[eng] In the context of rising costs of innovation in several high-tech industries, large companies and large countries have an advantage since both industries and governments can undertake large projects. How do small countries perform in such industrial sectors ? The article examines...

The Kyoto Protocol agreed on in 1997 allows some flexibility for developed countries in their implementations of their commitments to reduce emissions of CO<INF>2</INF> and other global warming gases. In particular developed countries may receive emission credits for facilitating international cooperation...</inf>

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In the past decade the share of cooperative R&D has increased. In this paper, using a case study of the forest industry in Canada, the antecedents of cooperative R&D and the forms it take are investigated. We show how market failures are corrected in the industry largely through industry wide...