Survey of advanced technology, main challenges in using or developing bioproducts, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and enterprise size for Canada and certain provinces, in 2014.
Survey of advanced technology, development or production of medical devices for human health, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and enterprise size for Canada and certain provinces, in 2014.
Survey of advanced technology, use of nanotechnologies, by type of nanotechnology application, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and enterprise size for Canada and certain provinces, in 2014.
Survey of advanced technology, development of nanotechnologies, by type of nanotechnology application, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and enterprise size for Canada and certain provinces, in 2014.
Survey of advanced technology, alliances or collaborative arrangements related to bioproducts, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and enterprise size for Canada and certain provinces, in 2014.
Design activities are central to firm competitiveness and delivering value-added products. Research has shown that rapidly growing companies attach greater weight to design activities. Through design, firms may improve the user interface and create characteristics that allow them to distinguish their products from those of their competitors. Using the results of the Survey of Advanced Technology 2007, this paper examines the extent of use of design activities among Canadian firms, with a view to explaining factors fostering firms' engagement in design activities. It explores whether design activities are more likely to be carried out in some manufacturing industries than in others. The average size of firms undertaking design activities will also be explored. Characteristics of firms that are likely to spend a greater proportion of their expenditures on in-house design activities versus those who outsource larger percentage of their design work to other firms outside their organizational boundaries will be discussed. This paper will also explore whether firms that have high design intensity are more likely to be innovators. Another area of interest of this paper is the question of whether firms that undertake design activities are more likely to be exporters. Common success factors reported by those firms with high design intensity will also be discussed.
This working paper provides some metrics for the measurement of user innovation. It explains what is meant by user innovation and provides background on its measurement at Statistics Canada, drawing attention to some more influential work. Challenges to the measurement of user innovation are presented. Details on the survey methodology and survey findings, measurement issues and some lessons learned from the survey will be discussed. The paper concludes by presenting contributions of this study to understanding user innovation.
A series of working papers on the transition from small to medium size is being derived from a joint project of Statistics Canada and the National Research Council's Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). The project developed out of a need to better understand how and why certain businesses grow.
This study examined the difference in adoption rates between firms that reported high employment growth and firms that did not.
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