Innovation and business strategy

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Percentage of enterprises that introduced product or process innovations with environmental benefits from production through efficient use of resources, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a three-year observation period. Benefits from production through efficient use of resources include improved resource efficiency through reduced material use per unit of output; improved resource efficiency through reduced energy use per unit of output; improved resource efficiency by replacing material with less greenhouse-gas-intensive alternatives; reduced consumption of resources through recycling (water, waste or material); and renewable fuels (ethanol, biodiesel, biogas, biochar, hydrogen).

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Percentage of enterprises that introduced product, process, organizational or marketing innovations with environmental benefits related to increased environmental protection activities and to the end user or consumer, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a three-year observation period. Benefits related to increased environmental protection activities include reduced air, water, soil or noise pollution; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Benefits related to the end user or consumer include reduced energy use or increased energy efficiency for the end user or consumer; reduced material use or increased recycling for the end user or consumer; reduced air, water, soil or noise pollution for the end user or consumer; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions for the end user or consumer.

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Percentage of enterprises that introduced product or process innovations that were new to one of their markets with environmental benefits from production through efficient use of resources, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a three-year observation period. Benefits from production through efficient use of resources include improved resource efficiency through reduced material use per unit of output; improved resource efficiency through reduced energy use per unit of output; improved resource efficiency by replacing material with less greenhouse-gas-intensive alternatives; reduced consumption of resources through recycling (water, waste or material); and renewable fuels (ethanol, biodiesel, biogas, biochar, hydrogen).

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Percentage of enterprises that introduced product, process, organizational or marketing innovations that were new to one of their markets with environmental benefits related to increased environmental protection activities and to the end user or consumer, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a three-year observation period. Benefits related to increased environmental protection activities include reduced air, water, soil or noise pollution; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Benefits related to the end user or consumer include reduced energy use or increased energy efficiency for the end user or consumer; reduced material use or increased recycling for the end user or consumer; reduced air, water, soil or noise pollution for the end user or consumer; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions for the end user or consumer.

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Percentage of enterprises that used specific types of advanced or emerging technologies, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Advanced technologies include material handling, supply chain or logistics technologies; design or information control technologies; processing or fabrication technologies; clean technologies; security or advanced authentication systems; business intelligence technologies; and other types of advanced technologies. Emerging technologies include nanotechnology, biotechnology, geomatics or geospatial technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), integrated Internet of Things (IoT) systems, blockchain technologies, and other types of emerging technologies.

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Percentage of enterprises that did not adopt or use advanced technologies for specific reasons, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Reasons for not adopting or using advanced technologies include not convinced of economic benefit; difficulty in obtaining financing; high cost of advanced technologies; investment not necessary for continuing operations; lack of technical skills required to support this type of investment; organizational culture too inflexible; decisions made by parent, affiliates or subsidiary businesses; lack of technical support or services (from consultants or vendors); lack of information regarding advanced technology; difficulty in integrating new advanced technologies with existing systems, standards and processes; other reasons for not adopting or using advanced technologies; and adoption or use of advanced technologies not applicable to this business’s activities.

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Percentage of enterprises where the use of clean technologies was related to environmental protection, sustainable resource management or adapted goods, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Environmental protection includes air and environment protection or remediation; waste management, reduction or recycling; and water or wastewater treatment. Sustainable resource management includes alternative fuels; non-emitting energy supply; bio-products; smart grid; energy storage; energy management and efficiency improvements; water management or recycling; agriculture, aquaculture, forestry or biodiversity improvements; and sustainable mining. Adapted goods include energy-efficient transportation, energy-efficient equipment or appliances, and advanced or lightweight materials.

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Percentage of enterprises for which specific long-term strategies were the most important, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, over the next five years. The most important long-term strategies include main focus on good or service positioning, main focus on low-price and cost leadership, and good or service positioning and low-price and cost leadership are equally important.

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Percentage of enterprises for which specific statements best described their strategic focus regarding goods or services (products), by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, over the next five years. Statements that best described enterprises’ strategic focus regarding goods or services (products) include maintain sales of existing goods or services, expand the sales of existing goods or services, introduce new or significantly improved goods or services regularly, and don’t know.

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Percentage of enterprises that introduced product or process innovations with environmental benefits from production through efficient use of resources, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a three-year observation period. Benefits from production through efficient use of resources include improved resource efficiency through reduced material use per unit of output; improved resource efficiency through reduced energy use per unit of output; improved resource efficiency by replacing material with less greenhouse-gas-intensive alternatives; reduced consumption of resources through recycling (water, waste or material); and renewable fuels (ethanol, biodiesel, biogas, biochar, hydrogen).

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Percentage of enterprises that introduced product, process, organizational or marketing innovations with environmental benefits related to increased environmental protection activities and to the end user or consumer, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a three-year observation period. Benefits related to increased environmental protection activities include reduced air, water, soil or noise pollution; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Benefits related to the end user or consumer include reduced energy use or increased energy efficiency for the end user or consumer; reduced material use or increased recycling for the end user or consumer; reduced air, water, soil or noise pollution for the end user or consumer; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions for the end user or consumer.

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Percentage of enterprises that introduced product or process innovations that were new to one of their markets with environmental benefits from production through efficient use of resources, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a three-year observation period. Benefits from production through efficient use of resources include improved resource efficiency through reduced material use per unit of output; improved resource efficiency through reduced energy use per unit of output; improved resource efficiency by replacing material with less greenhouse-gas-intensive alternatives; reduced consumption of resources through recycling (water, waste or material); and renewable fuels (ethanol, biodiesel, biogas, biochar, hydrogen).

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Percentage of enterprises that introduced product, process, organizational or marketing innovations that were new to one of their markets with environmental benefits related to increased environmental protection activities and to the end user or consumer, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a three-year observation period. Benefits related to increased environmental protection activities include reduced air, water, soil or noise pollution; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Benefits related to the end user or consumer include reduced energy use or increased energy efficiency for the end user or consumer; reduced material use or increased recycling for the end user or consumer; reduced air, water, soil or noise pollution for the end user or consumer; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions for the end user or consumer.

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Percentage of enterprises that used specific types of advanced or emerging technologies, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Advanced technologies include material handling, supply chain or logistics technologies; design or information control technologies; processing or fabrication technologies; clean technologies; security or advanced authentication systems; business intelligence technologies; and other types of advanced technologies. Emerging technologies include nanotechnology, biotechnology, geomatics or geospatial technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), integrated Internet of Things (IoT) systems, blockchain technologies, and other types of emerging technologies.

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Percentage of enterprises that did not adopt or use advanced technologies for specific reasons, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Reasons for not adopting or using advanced technologies include not convinced of economic benefit; difficulty in obtaining financing; high cost of advanced technologies; investment not necessary for continuing operations; lack of technical skills required to support this type of investment; organizational culture too inflexible; decisions made by parent, affiliates or subsidiary businesses; lack of technical support or services (from consultants or vendors); lack of information regarding advanced technology; difficulty in integrating new advanced technologies with existing systems, standards and processes; other reasons for not adopting or using advanced technologies; and adoption or use of advanced technologies not applicable to this business’s activities.

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Percentage of enterprises where the use of clean technologies was related to environmental protection, sustainable resource management or adapted goods, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, based on a one-year observation period. Environmental protection includes air and environment protection or remediation; waste management, reduction or recycling; and water or wastewater treatment. Sustainable resource management includes alternative fuels; non-emitting energy supply; bio-products; smart grid; energy storage; energy management and efficiency improvements; water management or recycling; agriculture, aquaculture, forestry or biodiversity improvements; and sustainable mining. Adapted goods include energy-efficient transportation, energy-efficient equipment or appliances, and advanced or lightweight materials.

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Percentage of enterprises for which specific long-term strategies were the most important, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, over the next five years. The most important long-term strategies include main focus on good or service positioning, main focus on low-price and cost leadership, and good or service positioning and low-price and cost leadership are equally important.

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Percentage of enterprises for which specific statements best described their strategic focus regarding goods or services (products), by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, over the next five years. Statements that best described enterprises’ strategic focus regarding goods or services (products) include maintain sales of existing goods or services, expand the sales of existing goods or services, introduce new or significantly improved goods or services regularly, and don’t know.

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Percentage of enterprises for which specific statements best described their strategic focus regarding marketing practices or methods, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code and enterprise size, over the next five years. Statements that best described enterprises’ strategic focus regarding marketing practices or methods include maintain current marketing practices or methods, intensify current marketing practices or methods, introduce new or significantly improved marketing practices or methods, and don’t know.

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This infographic presents results from the Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy relating to the innovation rates of Canadian enterprises between 2015 and 2017. The innovation rates were measured for product, process, organizational and marketing innovation. Results are presented by region, economic activity and enterprise size.

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The increased pace of globalization has brought about many changes in both the Canadian and world economies. One important change has been the increased prevalence of global value chains which sees production processes spread out around the globe, across vertically integrated multinationals or via arm’s length trade. This paper focuses on two types of global production arrangements, namely, the case of merchanting and of goods send abroad for processing, with the limiting case of factoryless goods producers. Using the results of the 2009 and 2012 Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy, this report aims to provide an indication of the degree and nature of outsourcing among Canadian firms, with respect to these global production arrangements.

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This on-line report summarizes research and development (R&D) activities performed and funded by Canadian business enterprises and industrial research institutes and associations. The data are used, for instance, to plan and evaluate R&D tax incentive programs, to provide indicators of the state of industrial innovation and to complement national aggregates for scientific R&D expenditures and personnel. Among the topics covered are current and capital expenditures on research and development, energy R&D expenditures by area of technology, R&D expenditures as a percentage of company revenues, sources of funds for intramural R&D, personnel engaged in R&D, and foreign payments made and received for technological services. Most historical tables are presented for the latest five years and disaggregated by 46 industrial groupings, size of R&D program, employment size, revenue size, country of control, and by province.

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This annual publication is based on the Survey of Intellectual Property Commercialization in the Higher Education Sector which tracks the progress of innovation in this area.

The objective of the survey is to assure the availability of pertinent information to monitor science and technology related activities and to support the development of science and technology policy. The topic studied is intellectual property management at universities and affiliated teaching hospitals. The data are used to determine how to maximize the benefits resulting from public sector research. Data users include the federal and provincial governments and university administrators and researchers.

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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.

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This paper presents estimates of intangible investment in Canada for the purpose of innovation, advertising and resource extraction. It first expands upon work by Beckstead and Gellatly (2003), Baldwin and Hanel (2003), Beckstead and Gellatly (2003), Beckstead and Vinodrai (2003) and Baldwin and Beckstead (2003) who argue that the scope of innovative activity extends beyond research and development (R&D) as defined by the Frascati Manual. It extends the definition of innovative activities to include all scientific and engineering expenditures - regardless of whether they are market-based or produced with a firm. The paper also considers expenditures on intangible items such as brands or resource exploration.

The paper contributes to the existing literature by creating intangible investment estimates (science and engineering knowledge, advertising, mineral exploration by industry) using Statistics Canada's high quality and internally consistent databases. It produces estimates that accord with other intangibles studies (Corrado, Hulten and Sichel 2005, 2006; Jalava, Ahmavarra and Alanen 2007) and shows that traditional R&D type investment estimates account for about a quarter of intangible science and engineering investments.

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This paper provides an analysis of technological change within the Canadian economy based on data from the 2006 Survey of Electronic Commerce and Technology where firms indicated how they introduced significantly improved technologies. The paper explores differences in the use of methods of introduction of significantly improved technologies by firm/organization size and by industry in both the private and public sectors.

The paper begins with a brief presentation of previous work carried out on technology introduction. The methodology is described. A description of concepts used in the analysis will follow. Analytic results examining technological change in the private sector overall, by industry and by size, and the public sector overall, by industry and by size are presented. A comparison of technological change in the private and public sectors follows. The paper concludes with a discussion of analytic results and further analytic work that could be undertaken.

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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.

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This working paper highlights a variety of aspects of innovation in the Canadian manufacturing sector, including incidence and types of innovation, novelty of innovation, innovation activities, sources of information contributing to innovation, cooperation with innovation partners, impacts of innovation, obstacles to innovation, use of government programs, intellectual property protection, and suppliers to innovative manufacturing plants.

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The concordance table provides a link between CANSIM tables and the survey questions from the Survey of Innovation and Business Strategy (SIBS).

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This activity looks at the different ways in which technology is used on the farm.

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This activity looks at changes in technology and how they affect the dairy industry.

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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.

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This paper describes the experiences, the issues and the expectations of the many different players involved in the implementation of document imaging for the Canadian Census of Agriculture.

Description: This survey was sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.

Description: The information collected by this survey provides information on innovation and innovation activities of Canadian businesses and their characteristics.

Description: The objective of the survey is to assure the availability of pertinent information to monitor science and technology related activities and to support the development of science and technology policy.

Description: The objective of the Survey of Advanced Technology is to collect important information about the extent to which Canadian enterprises use advanced technologies.

Description: The objective of the survey is to provide information on innovation, advanced technology and advanced practices being used in the construction and related industries.