Innovation and business strategy

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: A central concern surrounding recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is their potential to replace human labour, especially in the domain of content creation, such as the production of music, videos, images and text in the cultural industries. However, there is a lack of information regarding how AI may impact workers in these industries. This article attempts to fill this information gap by examining potential occupational exposure to and complementarity with AI in selected cultural industries in Canada.

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The number of enterprises and the value of support to enterprises broken down into eight employment size categories ranging from 0-4 employees to 500 employees or more.

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The number of enterprises and the value of support to enterprises broken down into nine revenue size categories ranging from 0$ to $250,000 to $500,000,000 or greater.

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The number of enterprises and the value of support to enterprises broken down into various industries of the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS).

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This table contains 180 series, with data for years 2014 - 2015 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada) Payments made or received for intellectual property and other technology related services (20 items: Payments made to other organizations for intellectual property and other technology related services; Payments made for patents; Payments made for copyrights; Payments made for trademarks; ...) Type of organization (3 items: Total payments for intellectual property and other technology related services for affiliated and other organizations or individuals; Parent, affiliated or subsidiary companies made within Canada; Other companies, organizations or individuals) Location of payments (3 items: Total payments for intellectual property and other technology related services within Canada or outside of Canada; Within Canada; Outside Canada).

Description: Innovation is a central engine of economic growth, technological advancement and urban resilience. In an increasingly interconnected and competitive global economy, cities and regions must sustain innovative activity to remain productive and attractive. Among the most debated sources of urban innovation is diversity. Notably, cultural diversity and industrial diversity have been studied as distinct drivers of innovation. This paper examines the impact of cultural and industrial diversity on innovation across 152 Canadian urban areas from 2001 to 2021.

Description: Intellectual property (IP), IP outputs and IP management carried out by colleges, universities and other higher education institutions in Canada. Intellectual property, IP Outputs and IP Management include, but are not limited to: new prototypes, new processes, IP protection activities, IP disclosures, patent activities, institutional engagement in IP management, resources used for information, guidance or advice on IP matters and average ownership proportion of IP owned by institutions.

Description: Encountered obstacles to commercialization of intellectual property (IP) reported by colleges, universities and other higher education institutions in Canada. These include obstacles faced during the process of IP commercialization and the most significant obstacle faced during that process.

Description: Support for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) reported by colleges, universities and other higher education institutions in Canada. This support includes: number of SMEs that received support, number of start-ups and spin-offs, value for investment in start-ups and spin-offs, amount received from disposition of equity holdings, options and warrants in start-ups and spin-off companies, value of cash dividends received from these start-ups and spin-off companies, value of remaining equity held by the institution in publicly traded start-ups and spin-off companies.

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The number of enterprises and the value of support to enterprises broken down into eight employment size categories ranging from 0-4 employees to 500 employees or more.

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The number of enterprises and the value of support to enterprises broken down into nine revenue size categories ranging from 0$ to $250,000 to $500,000,000 or greater.

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The number of enterprises and the value of support to enterprises broken down into various industries of the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS).

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This table contains 180 series, with data for years 2014 - 2015 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada) Payments made or received for intellectual property and other technology related services (20 items: Payments made to other organizations for intellectual property and other technology related services; Payments made for patents; Payments made for copyrights; Payments made for trademarks; ...) Type of organization (3 items: Total payments for intellectual property and other technology related services for affiliated and other organizations or individuals; Parent, affiliated or subsidiary companies made within Canada; Other companies, organizations or individuals) Location of payments (3 items: Total payments for intellectual property and other technology related services within Canada or outside of Canada; Within Canada; Outside Canada).

Description: Intellectual property (IP), IP outputs and IP management carried out by colleges, universities and other higher education institutions in Canada. Intellectual property, IP Outputs and IP Management include, but are not limited to: new prototypes, new processes, IP protection activities, IP disclosures, patent activities, institutional engagement in IP management, resources used for information, guidance or advice on IP matters and average ownership proportion of IP owned by institutions.

Description: Encountered obstacles to commercialization of intellectual property (IP) reported by colleges, universities and other higher education institutions in Canada. These include obstacles faced during the process of IP commercialization and the most significant obstacle faced during that process.

Description: Support for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) reported by colleges, universities and other higher education institutions in Canada. This support includes: number of SMEs that received support, number of start-ups and spin-offs, value for investment in start-ups and spin-offs, amount received from disposition of equity holdings, options and warrants in start-ups and spin-off companies, value of cash dividends received from these start-ups and spin-off companies, value of remaining equity held by the institution in publicly traded start-ups and spin-off companies.

Description: This interactive data visualization dashboard provides a comprehensive picture of research and development (R&D) activities in Canadian industry. Users will find extensive coverage of characteristics on R&D activities in Canadian industry. The dashboard features information on in-house as well as outsourced R&D expenditures, statistics on energy-related R&D expenditures by area of technology and details on intellectual property product commerce.

Description: Use of artificial intelligence (AI) by businesses or organizations in producing goods or delivering services over the next 12 months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2025.

Description: Reasons business or organization does not plan to use artificial intelligence (AI) in producing goods or delivering services over the next 12 months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, third quarter of 2025.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: A central concern surrounding recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is their potential to replace human labour, especially in the domain of content creation, such as the production of music, videos, images and text in the cultural industries. However, there is a lack of information regarding how AI may impact workers in these industries. This article attempts to fill this information gap by examining potential occupational exposure to and complementarity with AI in selected cultural industries in Canada.

Description: Innovation is a central engine of economic growth, technological advancement and urban resilience. In an increasingly interconnected and competitive global economy, cities and regions must sustain innovative activity to remain productive and attractive. Among the most debated sources of urban innovation is diversity. Notably, cultural diversity and industrial diversity have been studied as distinct drivers of innovation. This paper examines the impact of cultural and industrial diversity on innovation across 152 Canadian urban areas from 2001 to 2021.

Description: The adoption of advanced technologies is a strategic imperative for companies that want to succeed in competitive markets by reducing costs, expanding their product range and increasing productivity. This study seeks to identify the factors that may explain the effect of characteristics specific to Canadian business decision-makers on technology adoption.

Description: By focusing on exits, merger and acquisition and patenting activity, this paper provides a first assessment of the role of patents in firms' exit decisions. Using data from the Canadian Patent Research Database and the National Accounts Longitudinal Microdata File to track exits for cohorts of new firms, this paper explores the following questions: What is the role of patents in firms' exit decision? And more specifically: To what extent does owning patents contribute to firm survival (patent survival effect) or to exiting the market via merger and acquisition (patent trigger effect)?

Description: This paper constructed a new measure of data assets and updated the estimates of other intangible capital for the Canadian business sector. The methodology used for estimating data assets and other intangibles for the United States and European countries is applied in this paper to compare Canada with the United States and European countries.

Description: This analysis examines Canadian exporters in 2021 that have been funded by the federal government through Business Innovation and Growth Support (BIGS) programs. More specifically, the following analysis covers Canadian exporters at the enterprise level and examines exporters that were engaged in international merchandise trade only. This study also examines supported exporters compared with supported non-exporters and compared with all Canadian exporters.

Description: As we begin to use these new versions of AI, our jobs are destined to change. So, what will an average day of work look like a decade from now? Which jobs will AI impact the most? And is AI coming to replace our jobs all together? In this episode, we sat down with AI expert Tahsin Mehdi, an economist in the social analysis and modeling division of Statistics Canada, to answer our questions about how AI will transform our work lives in Canada.

Description: Intangible investments—investments that do not have a physical form—have been rising in importance in terms of use. From 1976 to 2016, the growth of intangible investments was faster than the growth of tangible investments. This study compares the performance of businesses owned by women (majority or equal ownership) that patent with that of majority men-owned businesses and businesses where gender of ownership cannot be assigned.

Description: This study provides experimental estimates of the number and percentage of workers in Canada potentially susceptible to AI-related job transformation based on the complementarity-adjusted AI occupational exposure index.

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The concordance table provides a link between data 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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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.

Description: The survey provides information on companies developing new products and processes using biotechnologies.