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241. Innovation and Connectivity: The Nature of Market Linkages and Innovation Networks in Canadian Manufacturing Industries Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2001165
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper investigates the extent to which customers/suppliers innovation networks are related to the size and pattern of inter-industry goods flows. It does so by devising a diversification index to measure the nature of inter-industry links that arise from the flow of goods and services from suppliers to customers. It then relates these diversification patterns to the importance of customer and supplier innovation networks.
Input/output matrices are used to measure the extent of inter-industry links and the pattern of inter-industry goods flows. The importance of customer/supplier networks is derived from data coming from the 1993 Survey of Innovation and Advanced Technology.
The study finds that the importance of supplier and of customer innovation networks is related to the structure of inter-industry trade flows. Where there are a small number of important backward inter-industry links, firms are more likely to make greater use of supplier partnerships. On the other hand, the importance of customer links increases when there is a large number of industry linkages downstream.
Release date: 2001-05-04
242. Some preliminary findings from the Survey of Innovation 1999 for manufacturing industries Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X20010025754
Geography: Canada
Description:
Findings from the Survey of innovation 1999 provide insights into the percent of innovative firms in manufacturing, why these firms innovate, their obstacles to innovation, and the impacts of innovation.
Release date: 2001-05-02
243. Training as a Human Resource Strategy: The Response to Staff Shortages and Technological Change Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2001154
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines the ways that innovation status as opposed to technology use affects the training activities of manufacturing plants. It examines training that is introduced as a response to specific skill shortages versus training that is implemented in response to the introduction of advanced equipment.
Advanced technology users are more likely to have workers in highly skilled occupations, to face greater shortages for these workers, and they are more likely to train workers in response to these shortages than are plants that do not use advanced technologies.
The introduction of new techniques is also accompanied by differences in the incidence of training, with advanced technology users being more likely to introduce training programs than non-users. Here, innovation status within the group of technology users also affects the training decision. In particular, innovating and non-innovating technology users diverge with regards to the extent and nature of training that is undertaken in response to the introduction of new advanced equipment. Innovators are more likely to provide training for this purpose and to prefer on-the-job training to other forms. Non-innovators are less likely to offer training under these circumstances and when they do, it is more likely to be done in a classroom, either off-site or at the firm.
These findings emphasize that training occurs for more than one reason. Shortages related to insufficient supply provide one rational. But it is not here that innovative firms stand out. Rather they appear to respond differentially to the introduction of new equipment by extensively implementing training that is highly firm-specific. This suggests that innovation requires new skills that are not so much occupation specific (though that is no doubt present) but general cognitive skills that come from operating in an innovative environment that involves improving the problem-solving capabilities of many in the workforce. These problem-solving capabilities occur in a learning-by-doing setting with hands on experience.
Release date: 2001-04-04
244. Innovation partners of Canadian manufacturing firms 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
245. Innovation and Training in New Firms Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2000123
Geography: Canada
Description:
Recent studies have demonstrated the quantitative importance of entry, exit, growth and decline in the industrial population. It is this turnover that rewards innovative activity and contributes to productivity growth.
While the size of the entry population is impressive - especially when cumulated over time - the importance of entry is ultimately due to its impact on innovation in the economy. Experimentation is important in a dynamic, market-based economy. A key part of the experimentation comes from entrants. New entrepreneurs constantly offer consumers new products both in terms of the basic good and the level of service that accompanies it.
This experimentation is associated with significant costs since many entrants fail. Young firms are most at risk of failure; data drawn from a longitudinal file of Canadian entrants in both the goods and service sectors show that over half the new firms that fail do so in the first two years of life. Life is short for the majority of entrants. Only 1 in 5 new firms survive to their tenth birthday.
Since so many entrants fall by the wayside, it is of inherent interest to understand the conditions that are associated with success, the conditions that allow the potential in new entrepreneurs to come to fruition. The success of an entrant is due to its choosing the correct combination of strategies and activities. To understand how these capabilities contribute to growth, it is necessary to study how the performance of entrants relates to differences in strategies and pursued activities.
This paper describes the environment and the characteristics of entrants that manage to survive and grow. In doing so, it focuses on two issues. The first is the innovativeness of entrants and the extent to which their growth depends on their innovativeness. The second is to outline how the stress on worker skills, which is partially related to training, complements innovation and contributes to growth.
Release date: 2000-12-08
246. Fabricated Metal Products Industries Archived
Journals and periodicals: 41-251-X
Geography: Canada
Description:
Fabricated metal products industries remain in the middle of an expansion period. The construction sector's vitality, as well as the high North-American demand for industrial products, allow metal products manufacturers to live glorious days. However, where competitiveness is concerned, there could be trouble in paradise. In the last few years, the cost of labour has been on the rise, while the value added for each paid hour has been weakening. Moreover, imports have been increasing at a higher pace than exports in the last two years.
Release date: 2000-09-01
247. Multinationals and the Canadian Innovation Process Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2000151
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines whether new views of the multinational that see these firms as decentralizing research and development (R&D) activities abroad to exploit local competencies accord with the activities of multinationals in Canada. The paper describes the innovation regime of multinational firms in Canada by examining the differences between foreign- and domestically owned firms. It focuses on the extent to which R&D is used; the type of R&D activity; the importance of R&D relative to other sources of innovative ideas; whether the use of these other ideas indicates that multinationals are closely tied into local innovation networks; the intensity of innovation; and the use that is made of intellectual property rights to protect innovations from being copied by others.
We find that, far from being passively dependent on R&D from their parents, foreign-owned firms in Canada are more active in R&D than the population of Canadian-owned firms. They are also more often involved in R&D collaboration projects both abroad and in Canada. As expected, foreign subsidiaries enjoy the advantage of accessing technology from their parent and sister companies. While multinationals are more closely tied into a network of related firms for innovative ideas than are domestically owned firms, their local R&D unit is a more important source of information for innovation than are these inter-firm links. Surprisingly, foreign subsidiaries also more frequently report that they are using technology from unrelated firms. Moreover, the multinational is just as likely to develop links into a local university and other local innovation consortia as are domestically owned firms. This evidence indicates that multinationals in Canada are not, on the whole, operating subsidiaries whose scientific development capabilities are truncated - at least not in comparison to domestically owned firms.
A comparison of the extent and impact of innovation activity of domestically and foreign-owned firms shows that foreign-owned firms innovate in all sectors more frequently than Canadian-owned companies in almost all size categories. They are also more likely to introduce world-first rather than more imitative innovations. Their superiority is most pronounced in the consumer goods sector. Finally, foreign-owned firms are more likely to protect their innovations with patent protection.
The paper also compares foreign subsidiaries to Canadian corporations that have an international orientation. These additional comparisons show that the two groups of multinationals are quite similar, both with regards to the likelihood that they conduct some form of R&D and that they introduce innovations. These results indicate that it is as much the degree of globalization that the nationality of ownership that affects the degree of innovativeness.
Overall, the survey results suggest that foreign-owned firms make a significant contribution to technological progress and innovation in Canadian industry.
Release date: 2000-06-27
248. Import Competition and Market Power: Canadian Evidence Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2000139
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper estimates price-marginal cost mark-ups for Canadian manufacturing industries in order to assess the impact of import competition on domestic market power. The results are mixed. Although the overall relationship between mark-ups and imports is positive across industries for the early 1970s and insignificant for the late 1970s, there is some weak cross-sectional evidence to suggest that imports reduce market power in domestically concentrated industries. Changes in imports between the two periods, however, have a positive impact on mark-ups in concentrated industries. Thus, there is no consistent evidence for Canada that imports have had the beneficial impact on competition that has been emphasized in much of the literature. In contrast, an interesting result of the paper is that increases in exports are associated with reductions in mark-ups, suggesting that exports may have a stronger pro-competitive impact on domestic firms than imports.
Release date: 2000-05-04
249. Consumption of Packaging Products by Manufacturing Industries, Portrait and Trends Archived
Articles and reports: 31F0027M2000001
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines current expenditures on packaging products by manufacturing industries and outlines various trends observed since the start of the decade.
Release date: 2000-03-29
250. Determinants of Innovative Activity in Canadian Manufacturing Firms: The Role of Intellectual Property Rights Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2000122
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines how several factors contribute to innovative activity in the Canadian manufacturing sector. First, 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 size and less competition serve to stimulate competition-the so-called Schumpeterian hypothesis. Fifth, the effect of the nationality of a firm on innovation is also investigated. Finally, the paper examines the effect of an industry's environment on a firm's ability to innovate.
Several findings are of note. First, the relationship between innovation and patent use is found to be much stronger going from innovation to patent use than from patent use to innovation. Firms that innovate take out patents; but firms and industries that make more intensive use of patents do not tend to produce more innovations. Second, while R&D is important, developing capabilities in other areas, such as technological competency and marketing, is also important. Third, size effects are significant. The largest firms tend to be more innovative. As for competition, intermediate levels of competition are the most conducive to innovation. Fourth, foreign-controlled firms are not significantly more likely to innovate than domestic-controlled firms once differences in competencies have been taken into account. Fifth, the scientific infrastructure provided by university research is a significant determinant of innovation.
Release date: 2000-03-07

Data (134)

Data (134) (40 to 50 of 134 results)

41. Canadian lumber exports by mode of transportation
Table: 16-10-0018-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description: Canadian lumber exports by mode of transportation, in thousands of cubic metres by provinces and for Canada.
Release date: 2024-03-04
42. Production, shipments and value of shipments of metallic and non-metallic minerals, annual
Table: 16-10-0022-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description:
This table presents a few different variables for over 75 products from the mining industry such as aluminum, cobalt, gold, iron, lead, nickel, silver, stone, salt, lime, etc. The variables available in this table are the quantity produced, the quantity shipped, the closing inventories and the value of shipments. The data are published at the national, provincial and territorial levels.
Release date: 2024-02-28
43. Principal statistics for manufacturing industries, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
Table: 16-10-0117-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description:
This table contains 86609 series, with data for years 2012 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (17 items: Canada; Atlantic Region; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...) Principal statistics (22 items: Total revenue; Revenue from goods manufactured; Total expenses; Total salaries and wages, direct and indirect labour; ...) North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (290 items: Manufacturing; Food manufacturing; Animal food manufacturing; Animal food manufacturing; ...).
Release date: 2023-12-21
44. Principal statistics for the motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts manufacturing industries on an annual basis
Table: 16-10-0117-02
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description:
Principal statistics for the motor vehicle and motor vehicle parts manufacturing, motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing industries. Estimates are presented on an annual basis for Canada in dollars x 1,000,000.
Release date: 2023-12-21
45. Logging industries, principal statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
Table: 16-10-0114-01
Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description: This table contains 768 series, with data for years 2012 - 2016 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (16 items: Canada; Atlantic Region; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...) Principal statistics (16 items: Total revenue; Revenue from logging activities; Total expenses; Total salaries and wages, direct and indirect labour; ...) North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (3 items: Logging; Logging (except contract); Contract Logging).
Release date: 2023-12-20
46. Manufacturing industries, total annual energy fuel consumption in natural units, 31-33
Table: 25-10-0024-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Annual
Description: Data are presented at the national level, by fuel type (butane, electricity, steam, etc) and by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Not all combinations are available.
Release date: 2023-10-30
47. Manufacturing industries, total annual energy fuel consumption in gigajoules, 31-33
Table: 25-10-0025-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Annual
Description: Data are presented at the national level by fuel type in gigajoules (butane, electricity, steam, etc) and by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Not all combinations are available.
Release date: 2023-10-30
48. Chemicals and synthetic resins production, annual
Table: 16-10-0041-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Annual
Description: Chemicals and synthetic resins products annual production, data in tonnes.
Release date: 2023-08-17
49. Mining industries, principal statistics by industry, Canada
Table: 16-10-0031-01
Geography: Canada
Frequency: Annual
Description: This table contains principal statistics for the Canadian mineral industries which include metal ore mining and non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying. The table includes data on revenue and expenses, number of employees as well as opening and closing inventories.
Release date: 2023-08-01
50. Mining industries, principal statistics by industry, by province
Table: 16-10-0032-01
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Frequency: Annual
Description: This table contains principal statistics for the Canadian mineral industries which include metal ore mining and non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying. The table includes data on revenue and expenses, number of employees as well as opening and closing inventories.
Release date: 2023-08-01

Analysis (152)

Analysis (152) (60 to 70 of 152 results)

61. Global Links: Multinationals, Foreign Ownership and Productivity Growth in Canadian Manufacturing Archived
Articles and reports: 11-622-M2005009
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines two potential benefits of foreign-controlled plants in the Canadian manufacturing sector: the superior performance of foreign-controlled plants and their productivity spillovers to domestic plants. The paper finds that foreign-controlled plants are more productive, more innovative, more technology intensive, pay higher wages and use more skilled workers. This foreign-ownership advantage is found to be a multinational advantage. What matters for economic performance is whether plants belong to multinational enterprises (MNEs) rather than ownership per se. Canadian multinationals are as productive as foreign multinationals. We also find that MNEs have accounted for a disproportionately large share of productivity growth in the last two decades. Finally, we find robust evidence for productivity spillovers from foreign-controlled plants to domestic-controlled plants arising from increased competition and greater use of new technologies among domestic plants.
Release date: 2005-12-05
62. Tariff Reduction and Employment in Canadian Manufacturing, 1988-1994 Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2005258
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper uses firm-level data from the T2/LEAP to investigate whether the link between tariff changes and employment differed across firms with various productivity and leverage characteristics over the period 1988 to 1994. The results suggest that the combined effect of domestic and U.S. tariff reductions on employment was typically small, but that losses were significantly larger for firms which were less productive. For instance, firms with average productivity in 1988 responded to tariff changes by cutting employment by only 3.6% over the period 1988 to 1994, while lower productivity firms typically shed 15.1% of their workforce over the same period. This paper also indicates that firms which were more heavily in debt downsized more in response to declining domestic tariffs, suggesting that financial constrains became more binding when tariff cuts were implemented. These results suggest that firms with high productivity and low leverage were less likely than others to feel the impact of declining U.S. and domestic tariffs.
Release date: 2005-06-22
63. Summary Of: Tariff Reduction and Employment in Canadian Manufacturing, 1988-1994 Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2005259
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article summarizes findings from the research paper entitled: Tariff Reduction and Employment in Canadian Manufacturing, 1988-1994. At the end of the 1980s, Canada and the United States reached an agreement to phase out import tariffs over a 10-year period beginning January 1st, 1989. This tariff reduction scheme was a major centre-piece of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The implementation of the FTA was followed by a recession, characterized by massive job cuts in manufacturing industries, which led to suggestions that employment losses were related to the reduction of trade barriers. Research on firm output and survival (Gu, Sawchuk and Whewell, 2003; Baggs, 2004) suggests the impact of tariff changes was different across industries and across firms within industries. Using firm-level data, this study investigates the impact of reduced Canadian and U.S. tariffs on Canadian manufacturing employment. The study also asks whether the impact was heterogeneous across firms with various productivity and leverage characteristics.
Release date: 2005-06-22
64. The impact of R&D tax credits on innovation:The impact of R&D tax credits on innovation: an empirical analysis based on a survey on innovation in Canadian manufacturing Archived
Articles and reports: 88-003-X20050028016
Geography: Canada
Description:
In a recent study using data from the Canadian Survey of Innovation 1999, the authors examined the effect of R&D tax credits on innovation activities of Canadian manufacturing firms. They found positive effects on the propensity of firms to perform R&D activities such the introduction to the market of a new product or process that was a world first. However, there is no significant effect on more general firm performance indicators such as profitability, domestic market share or international market share.
Release date: 2005-06-20
65. Foreign Multinationals and Head Office Employment in Canadian Manufacturing Firms Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0027M2005034
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines head office employment in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It focuses on the characteristics that are related to the creation of a head office and the amount of employment in that head office. Among the characteristics investigated are firm size, number of plants, industrial diversity, geographical location, industry and nationality. The paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to create a head office and to create more employment in their head offices than are domestic-controlled firms, after controlling for firm characteristics. It also finds that head office creation and employment levels are associated with a firm's level of complexity (e.g., its size) and how it organises its production geographically.
Release date: 2005-06-08
66. Death in the Industrial World: Plant Closures and Capital Retirement Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0027M2005033
Geography: Canada
Description:
Plant deaths arise from failure when firms exit an industry. Plant deaths are also associated with renewal when incumbent firms close down plants and modernize their production facilities and start-up new plants.
The rate of plant deaths affects the amount of change that occurs in labour and capital markets. Plant deaths result in job losses and incur significant human costs as employees are forced to seek other work. The death process also gives rise to capital losses - to the loss of earlier investments that the industrial system had made in productive capacity. This paper makes use of the plant-death date to provide new information on the likely length of life of capital invested in plants.
This paper measures the death rate over a forty year period for new plants in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It develops a profile of the death rate for entrants as they age. On average, 14% of new plants die in their first year. Over half of new plants die by the age of six. By the age of 15, less than 20% are still alive.
As a result, manufacturing plants have relatively short lives. The average new plant lives only nine years (17 years if the average is employment-weighted). These rates vary by industry. The longest length of life (13 years) can be found in two industries -primary metals and paper and allied products. The shortest average length of life (less than 8 years) occurs in wood industries.
Release date: 2005-05-04
67. Stretching or Shrinking? The Textile and Clothing Industries in Canada Archived
Articles and reports: 11-621-M2005022
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article investigates trends in international trade, production and employment in the textile and clothing industries, from 1992 to 2004. It also examines patterns of trade in textiles and clothing.
Release date: 2005-03-21
68. Canada's textile and clothing industries Archived
Articles and reports: 11-010-X20050037804
Geography: Canada
Description:
A profile of jobs, productivity, output and trade in these industries as they enter a new trade era without import quotas.
Release date: 2005-03-17
69. Sport Utility Vehicles: Driving Change Archived
Articles and reports: 11-621-M2005020
Geography: Canada
Description:
This study examines production and sales trends in automotive and light duty vehicle manufacturing in Canada and the United States from 1999 to 2004. It focuses on production and sales of sport utility vehicles.
Release date: 2005-02-16
70. Integration and Co-integration: Do Canada-U.S. Manufacturing Prices Obey the Law of One Price? Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0027M2005029
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper uses a detailed industry-level data base of industry prices in the manufacturing sector in Canada and the United States to investigate whether prices are co-integrated in the two countries and whether the relationship between the two sets of prices follows the law of one price. We find that aggregate Canadian price movements track U.S. price movements closely, but not perfectly, in the long run. But there are substantial deviations from the law of one price in the short run. Moreover, many individual industries deviate from the law of one price. These deviations are related to the degree of tariff protection and to the degree of product differentiation at the industry level.
Release date: 2005-02-15

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