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Business Strategies in Innovative and Non-innovative Firms in Canada

Johnson, Joanne; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

This study investigates differences in the policies being pursued by innovative and non-innovative firms. It focuses on a broad group of strategies -- in marketing, finance, production, management and human resources and asks whether there are key areas in which the strategies being followed by...

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Innovation Capabilities: Science and Engineering Employment in Canada and the United States

Beckstead, Desmond; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

This paper compares the size and composition of science and engineering employment in Canada and the United States. It examines the share of paid employment and paid earnings accounted for by the science and engineering workforce in both countries. Our tabulations distinguish between a core...

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The Effect of Organizational Innovation and Information Technology on Firm Performance

Gu, Wulong; Gera, Surendra - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

This paper examines the issue of whether investment in information and communication technologies, combined with organizational changes and worker skills, contribute to better performance in Canadian firms.

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Innovation Capabilities: The Knowledge Capital Behind the Survival and Growth of Firms

Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

This paper summarizes the findings of a research program aimed at outlining the importance to the firm growth process of competencies that arise from investments in intangible assets. The program has consisted of two parts. First, longitudinal databases have provided a rich set of studies on...

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Canada's Investments in Science and Innovation: Is the Existing Concept of Research and Development Sufficient?

Beckstead, Desmond; Gellatly, Guy; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

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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Comprendre l'echec : mortalite organisationnelle et approche fondee sur les ressources

Thornhill, Stewart; Amit, Raphael - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

Ce document comprend un examen des facteurs qui sous-tendent l'echec d'une entreprise ainsi qu'une comparaison des mecanismes qui menent a la faillite des jeunes entreprises et des plus anciennes. Il donne a penser qu'il existe des differences systematiques entre les determinants des faillites...

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L'utilisation de la technologie, la formation et les connaissances specifiques dans les etablissements de fabrication

Johnson, Joanne; Baldwin, John R.; Gray, Tara - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

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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XECON : un modele evolutif experimental de croissance economique

Wolfson, Michael - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

Le role de l'innovation technique dans la croissance economique est a la fois une question qui interesse beaucoup la …

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Entreprises, industries et assurance-chomage : une analyse des donnees sur les employeurs et les employes recueillies au Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

L'analyse de donnees administratives devenues disponibles recemment dans un certain nombre de pays a mene a la conclusion qu'une etude minutieuse de l'interaction entre les caracteristiques de l'employeur et celles des employes est necessaire pour bien interpreter les resultats observes sur le...

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Le chainon manquant : donnees sur l'element demande des marches du travail

Osberg, Lars - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

Les economistes du travail ont elabore des modeles theoriques complexes et mene des analyses econometriques tres avancees pour analyser le processus de prise de decisions par les menages. Toutefois, a cet accent mis sur l'element offre du marche du travail n'ont pas correspondu des analyses...

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