Download or read book Understanding Innovation in Canadian Industry written by Fred Gault and published by Kingston, Ont. : Published for the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University by McGill-Queen's University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the findings of surveys of innovation in Canadian industry, analysed using a variety of economentric techniques and descriptive statistics. The results are placed in the context of the Innovation Strategy of the federal government of Canada and the conclusion identifies information gaps, unmet policy needs, and suggestions for future work. Promoting innovation is a preoccupation of most industrialized countries and Canada, with its Innovation Strategy, released in February 2002, is no exception. In the context of such a startegy, understanding the activity of innovation, and the links bewteen actors in the innovation system, contribute to the policy debate. Large firms are more likely to produce a world-first innovation, to have R & D units, to enter into collaborations, especially local ones, and to appropriate intellectual property from government laboratories. This contrasts with smaller firms that are more likely to produce innovations that are new to the firm, rather than world-first, and to draw upon more informal sources of information, such as trade journals or conferences, as they lack the absorptive capacity needed to capture intellectual property. These findings have implications for commercialization policy and for technical assistance programmes. As well as providing findings on innovation, and the system in which it takes place, the book is an introduction to how large surveys are designed, carried out, and analysed as part of the policy process. All of the material needed to follow the process is either in the book or freely available on the Statistics Canada web site. The analysis, leading to the findings, uses a variety of econometric methods, as well as descriptive statistics. A chapter reviews the methods used and comments on the balance between econometric techniques and descriptive methods. It allows the reader to benefit more from the presentation of the analytical methods in the rest of the book, and to develop a critical appreciation of technique and of infererences gained. Empirical findings are linked to policy throughout and the book ends with proposals for statistical measurement, analysis, and policy. While the book is focussed on Canada, the findings and recommendations apply to any industrial economy.
Download or read book Canada s National System of Innovation written by Jorge Niosi and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data in questionnaire responses from large research and development organizations, Niosi (administration, L'Universite de Quebec a Montreal) looks at the history and current status of Canadian research universities, government laboratories, and policies designed to nurture technical and organizational innovation in private firms, academia, and government agencies. He concludes that Canada has been quite successful in creating a national system of innovation and that the federal government, through its initiatives and techniques, has been the main factor in creating the system. Canadian call number C99-901198-7. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Innovation and Knowledge Creation in an Open Economy written by John R. Baldwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-03 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of innovation - its intensity, the sources used for knowledge creation, and its impacts - is based on a comprehensive survey of innovation of Canadian manufacturing firms. Attention is paid to the different actors in the system, who both compete with and complement one another. The study investigates how innovation regimes differ across size of firm and across industries. Owing to the high degree of foreign investment in Canada, special attention is paid to the performance of foreign-owned firms. The innovation regime of Canadian innovators is compared with results of studies of other industrialized countries. The picture of a typical innovator is a firm that combines internal resources and external contacts to develop a set of complementary strategies. The study finds that innovating firms depend not only on R&D, but also on ideas and technology from various other sources, both internal and external to the firm.
Download or read book Innovation and the Structure of Canadian Industry written by Pierre L. Bourgault and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Innovation and the Structure of Canadian Industry written by Pierre L. Bourgault and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Innovation and Knowledge Creation in an Open Economy written by John Russel Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about innovation and it examines the whole process, from sources of innovative ideas and technologies, the role of R & D activity, the use of patent protection and other government policies, to the effect of innovation on employment and various performance indicators such as profitability and export performance.
Download or read book Innovation in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Knowledge Clusters and Regional Innovation written by Innovation Systems Research Network. Conference and published by Published for the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University by McGill-Queen's University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation is increasingly recognised as the key to successful competition in the global knowledge-based economy. In Knowledge, Clusters and Regional Innovation the authors illuminate the highly differentiated nature of the innovation systems found across the country and demonstrate that innovation can occur in a wide range of sectors and clusters, ranging from multimedia and biotechnology in large metropolitan areas to more traditional sectors such as wood products in rural settings.Written by members of the Innovation Systems Research Network (ISRN), a cross-national network of regionally oriented researchers from a wide range of disciplines, Knowledge, Clusters and Regional Innovation provides important insights into the varied nature of innovation in the Canadian economy. The members of the network have recently launched a major study of cluster development across Canada that promises to provide scholars and policymakers with continuing insights into the nature economic development in Canada.Contributors include Neil Bradford (Huron University College), Shauna Brail (Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ontario), John N.H. Britton (University of Toronto), Michael Gurstein (Technical University of British Columbia), J. Adam Holbrook, Cooper H. Langford (University of Calgary), Lisa Mills (Brown University), Jorge Niosi (Université du Québec à Montréal), Pierre Therrien (Marketplace Innovation Directorate, Industry Canada), Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay (Université du Québec), and David A. Wolfe.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Innovation written by Jan Fagerberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation.
Download or read book Flexible Innovation written by Jorge Niosi and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing his study on in-depth interviews with more than 130 companies across Canada, Jorge Niosi analyses the scope of collaborative research activities - both domestic and international - in the fields of biotechnology, electronics, advanced materials, and manufacturing of transportation equipment. He describes successful patterns of collaboration, obstacles and limitations, and the role of public policy, universities, and government laboratories in technological alliances. He compares Canadian partnerships and public policy with similar patterns in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Download or read book Paradox Lost Explaining Canada s Research Strength and Innovation Weakness written by Council of Canadian Academies and published by Council of CanadianAcademies. This book was released on 2013 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Council of Canadian Academies (the Council) has, since 2006, completed seven expert panel assessments analyzing in great depth Canada's performance in science and technology (S&T) and innovation. This document synthesizes the main findings of that work, from which two main conclusions emerge: Canadian academic research, overall, is strong and well regarded internationally; Canadian business innovation, by contrast, is weak by international standards, and this is the primary cause of Canada's poor productivity growth"--Executive summary.
Download or read book Understanding Innovation in Emerging Economic Spaces written by Grzegorz Micek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small number of countries, regions, cities, and localities are powerful gatekeepers and generate the bulk of creative and innovative ideas, while the majority is largely excluded. This book looks at neglected, but emerging innovation centres analysed from various spatial and organizational perspectives; ranging from entire countries and regions to individual firms and small neighbourhoods. Bringing together leading scholars from various disciplines, it examines a variety of economic sectors including biotechnology, agrotourism, and the food retail industry. The authors employ various, often contradictory, concepts, ranging from local buzz and the global pipeline, through an analysis of collective learning processes to geographical embeddedness, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The purpose of the book is twofold: investigating changes occurring in the regions and cities under transformation and attempting to find common and unique mechanisms behind these changes. Consequently, the authors shed light on the scale and scope of the innovativeness of selected economic and social processes.
Download or read book Growing Urban Economies written by David A. Wolfe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and nuanced analysis of the interplay of social, political, and economic factors in thirteen Canadian city-regions, large and small, this collection integrates research focusing on innovation, creativity and talent-retention, and governance in order to understand the distinctive experience of each region.
Download or read book Canadian Science Technology and Innovation Policy written by G. Bruce Doern and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive and in-depth account and explanation of Canada's changing policies for science, technology, and innovation.
Download or read book Technology and Innovation in Canadian Industry written by Canada. Ministry of State, Science and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canada s Regional Innovation System written by Jorge Niosi and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional innovation systems, Jorge Niosi shows, are evolutionary complex systems in which each group of agents reacts to the behaviour of others as well as to public policy incentives. Canada's Regional Innovation System finds that Canada's biotechnology capabilities are widely distributed but solidly planted in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, with smaller centres in Calgary and Edmonton. However, the specific institutional structures (innovative firms, research universities, and public laboratories) of regional systems vary from one industry to another and evolve through time. While aerospace and aircraft form two poles in Montreal and Toronto, Ottawa is Canada's centre for semiconductor and telecommunication innovation. Niosi explores how these regional configurations are shaped by national and provincial public policy incentives. The study is based on patent and company information as well as aggregate figures from Statistics Canada and other sources.
Download or read book Innovation and Business Strategy Why Canada Falls Short written by The Expert Panel on Business Innovation and published by Council of CanadianAcademies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
