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This study examines the factors influencing a firm's decision to train, using data taken from several recent Statistic Canada surveys that explore advanced technology use by Canadian manufacturing plants. Advanced technology adoption has been both rapid and pervasive, leading to concerns about...
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required for the Accounts should incorporate a broad range of science-based innovation costs and that this broader R&D concept …. If all science-based innovation expenditures are to be capitalized, GDP will increase. But it appears that Canada …'s innovation system is directed more towards non-R&D science-based expenditures than the innovation systems of many other countries …
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La presente etude traite des facteurs qui influent sur la decision de l'entreprise de former le personnel a la lumiere des donnees de plusieurs enquetes recentes de Statistique Canada, qui portaient sur l'utilisation des technologies de pointe dans les entreprises de fabrication canadiennes....
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, it investigates the extent to which intellectual property right protection stimulates innovation. Second, it examines the … contribution that R&D makes to innovation. Third, it considers the importance of various competencies in the area of marketing …, human resource, technology and production to the innovation process. Fourth, it examines the extent to which a larger firm …
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This paper describes the evidence that several Statistics Canada studies have developed on the importance of innovation … to growth and the need for highly skilled workers in the innovation process. Rather than focusing on broad industry … frequently distinguishes faster from slower growing firms is innovation. Innovators in turn place greater emphasis on training …
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Using a comprehensive micro-database of Canadian firms in conjunction with industry-level data on commodity flows, we develop a profile of corporate diversification within the Canadian economy. Our analysis has two major objectives. First, we decompose corporate diversification into horizontal...
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This paper presents estimates of intangible investment in Canada for the purpose of innovation, advertising and …
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Le present document fournit des estimations de l'investissement en actifs incorporels au Canada dans les domaines de l'innovation … (2003) qui soutiennent que la portee des activites d'innovation s'etend au dela de la recherche et developpement telle qu …'elle est definie dans le Manuel de Frascati. Ces auteurs elargissent la definition des activites d'innovation afin d'y inclure …
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Innovation is at the heart of economic growth and development. It is through innovation that new products are brought … innovate for different reasons, in different ways and with different results. This report focuses on how the innovation … understanding of what competitive pressures come into play and how these pressures affect the type of innovation that is performed …
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The food-processing industry benefits from a wide a range of new advanced technologies. Technological advances include computer-based information and control systems, as well as sophisticated processing and packaging methods that enhance product quality, improve food safety and reduce costs....
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