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  • 61. Capacity to Innovate, Innovation and Impact: The Canadian Engineering Services Industry - Open in new window/tab Archived
    Articles and reports: 88F0017M2001011
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This paper presents estimates of the technological and performance indicators, organized into a system of innovation. The elements of the system are linked together as inputs, outcomes and impacts in order to form a coherent picture of the relationship between technological change and its economic impact.

    Release date: 2001-04-23
  • 62. Innovation partners of Canadian manufacturing firms - Open in new window/tab Archived
    Articles and reports: 88-003-X20010015584
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    According to the findings of the 1999 Survey of Innovation, one third of innovative manufacturing firms in Canada develop new products and processes in collaboration with partners. The three most important reasons for this collaboration are 1. accessing critical expertise, 2. accessing R&D, and 3. prototype development. Eighty-eight percent (88%) of collaborating firms have partners in Canada and two thirds have partners in the United States.

    Release date: 2001-03-13
  • 63. Knowledge and innovation: Making the most of the best - Open in new window/tab Archived
    Articles and reports: 88-003-X20010015586
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Knowledge leads to innovation and innovation, in turn, sets in motion a new cycle of learning as firms try to find solutions to complex problems. A survey of innovation covering the three-year period 1994-96 ranks more than 2,000 firms on a knowledge-intensity scale.

    Release date: 2001-03-13
  • 64. Innovation, Advanced Technologies and Practices in the Construction and Related Industries: Provincial Estimates - Open in new window/tab Archived
    Articles and reports: 88F0006X2001003
    Description:

    The Survey of Innovation, Advanced Technologies and Practices in the Construction and Related Industries was conducted by Statistics Canada during the spring and summer of 1999. It was based on a list of businesses classified to construction industries taken from the Statistics Canada's Business Register. The survey consists of eight sections with questions on business environment; success factors; use and planned use of advanced technologies; use and planned use of advanced practices; mergers, acquisitions and expansions; sources of information; obstacles; and impact.

    Release date: 2001-02-26
  • 65. Analysis of the Survey on Innovation, Advanced Technologies and Practices in the Construction and Related Industries, 1999 - Open in new window/tab Archived
    Articles and reports: 88F0017M2001010
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This report defines innovation and explores the current understanding of innovation processes in construction industries. It uses data from the 1999 Survey on Innovation, Advanced Technologies and Practices in the Construction and Related Industries.

    Release date: 2001-02-19
  • 66. Use and planned use of advanced technologies and advanced practices in the construction sector - Open in new window/tab Archived
    Articles and reports: 88-003-X20000035762
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    The first survey of innovation, advanced technologies and practices in the Canadian construction sector was recently conducted. Of the five types of technologies listed in the survey, communications technologies have the highest percentage of use (46% of businesses). Of all the techonolgies, three computer-related technologies had the highest percentage of use : e-mail (38%), company computer networks (25%) and computer aided design (23%). The three advanced practices with the largest percentage of business using them, each with one third of businesses, are: design-build contracts, computerized inventory control and computerized estimating software.

    Release date: 2000-10-06
  • 67. Why do the surveys of innovation and R&D diverge? - Open in new window/tab Archived
    Articles and reports: 88-003-X20000035768
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Why do innovation surveys produce radically different estimates of the number of R&D performers than R&D surveys? The factors contributing to divergence are presented with detail on selected contributors.

    Release date: 2000-10-06
  • 68. Mapping innovation and connectedness - Open in new window/tab Archived
    Articles and reports: 88-003-X20000035776
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Location, location, location - is it important in research and technology? Statistics Canada survey data are being used to provide a new approach to analyze the usefulness of mapping key innovation indicators. By attaching survey data sets to sources with a larger sample size, detailed geographic distributions of establishments are estimated. Numerous data sets are being explored with the benefits to be realized in an interactive GIS.

    Release date: 2000-10-06
  • 69. Innovation in the engineering services industry - Open in new window/tab Archived
    Articles and reports: 88-003-X20000025114
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Fuelled by rapid technological change and the emerging global marketplace, the need for a stream of new and improved products - in other words innovation - is growing. Some 31% of the engineering firms surveyed replaced an existing products, added a new product to their existing line or diversified into new product lines.

    Release date: 2000-06-01
  • 70. Barriers to innovation in service industries - Open in new window/tab Archived
    Articles and reports: 88-003-X20000025116
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Innovation is the basis for progress and the key to success for many organizations. This article examines the effect of perceived barriers to innovation by sector. For instance, the financial services sector is cautious about new technological developments due to feasibility risks and markets outlets.

    Release date: 2000-06-01
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  • 1. Innovation in an evolving economy - Open in new window/tab Archived
    Notices and consultations: 88-003-X20020026374
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Statistics Canada's annual Economic Conference provides a forum for the exchange of empirical research among business, government, research and labour communities. The conference is also a means to promote economic and socio-economic analyses while subjecting existing data to critical assessment as part of an ongoing process of statistical development and review. This year's theme was Innovation in an Evolving Economy. At the May 6-7, 2002 conference there were 12 presentations, based directly on the analysis of Science, Innovation and Electronic Information Division (SIEID) data. These presentations were given by SIEID analysts, by Statistics Canada analysts in other groups, by facilitated access researchers and by analysts using published or commissioned estimates.

    Release date: 2002-06-14

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