Science and technology

Description: Percentage of enterprises that introduced product, process, organizational or marketing innovations that were new to one of their markets with environmental benefits from production through efficient use of resources, or environmental benefits related to increased environmental protection activities and to the end user or consumer, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and enterprise size for Canada and certain provinces.

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This table contains 13 series, with data for years 2014 - 2017 (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) In-house research and development expenditure types (13 items: Total in-house research and development expenditures; Total current in-house research and development expenditures; Wages and salaries; Other current costs; ...).

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This table contains 8 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) Occupational Category (8 items: Total in-house research and development personnel; Researchers and research managers; Scientists, social scientists, engineers and researchers; Senior research managers; ...).

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This table contains 98 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 (14 items: Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; Nova Scotia; New Brunswick; ...) Research and development characteristics (7 items: Total in-house research and development expenditures; Total current in-house research and development expenditures; Total capital in-house research and development expenditures; Total in-house research and development personnel; ...).

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This table contains 17 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) Source of funds (17 items: Total sources of funds; Canadian private non-profit organizations; Responding Canadian private non-profit organizations; Other Canadian private non-profit organizations; ...).

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This table contains 13 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) Field of research and development (13 items: Total in-house research and development expenditures in Canada; Natural sciences and engineering; Medical and health sciences; Basic medicine; ...).

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This table contains 5 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) Nature of research and development (5 items: Total in-house research and development expenditures in Canada; Research; Basic research; Applied research; ...).

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This table contains 7 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) Results of research and development activities within and outside Canada for the prior three-year period (7 items: New or significant improvements; Goods; Services; Methods of manufacturing or producing goods or services; ...).

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This table contains 42 series, with data for years 2014 - 2017 (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) Location of recipients (3 items: Total location of recipients; Within Canada; Outside Canada) Sector of recipients (14 items: Total outsourced (contracted out or granted) payments for research and development performed by other organizations; Business enterprise sector; Companies; Industrial research institutes or associations; ...).

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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 and business strategy, government support programs critical for innovation activities, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), government programs and enterprise size for Canada and selected provinces from 2007 to today.

Description: Innovation and business strategy, advanced technology use, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), enterprise size and advanced technology for Canada and selected provinces from 2009 to today.

Description: Survey of intellectual property commercialization, by higher education sector indicators, for Canada from 1998 to 2009.

Description: Biotechnology use and development survey, indicators for innovative biotechnology firms by firms size for Canada, biennial survey from 1999 to 2005.

Description: Biotechnology use and development survey, indicators for innovative biotechnology firms by sector, for Canada, biennial survey from 1999 to 2005.

Description: Biotechnology use and development survey, indicators for innovative biotechnology firms for Canada and by region , biennial survey from 1999 to 2005.

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The tables provide information on the innovation in the business unit; business unit success factors; new or significantly improved products and processes; unfinished or abandoned innovation activities; innovation activities; sources of information for innovation; co-operative and collaborative arrangements for innovation; obstacles to innovation; impact of innovation; protection of intellectual property and government support programs. The CD provides 1,134 statistical tables based on the Survey of Innovation 2003. The estimates are presented on a national and provincial/territorial level by selected service industries.

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Recent advances in artificial intelligence and machine-learning technologies have fuelled fears of potential job losses among some workers. While the net impact of new technology on total jobs can be negative, positive or neutral, some workers may be more affected than others depending on how easily robots and algorithms can replace them, or how easily their skills complement the new technology. In the case of women and men, it is not clear who is likely to be most affected. This study estimates the risk of job transformation as a result of automation technology faced by women and men.

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Over the past few decades, computer technology has gradually changed workplaces, leading to a reduction of routine and manual job tasks, and an increase in non-routine, cognitive tasks. More recent developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning could be even more far-reaching, as they are designed to execute tasks that were traditionally considered non-automatable.

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The recent development of several artificial intelligence applications—such as driverless vehicles, robo-writers and computer-aided medical diagnostics—has led to concerns about the role of human workers in the future workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic has added to these concerns, as businesses may turn to new artificial intelligence technologies to perform work activities not traditionally regarded as automatable, such as social tasks. While previous studies have estimated the share of Canadian workers at high risk of automation-related job transformation, this study is the first to examine in great detail the automation risks faced by different groups of workers.

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

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The main objective of this paper is to determine whether the immigration status of the owner of a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) affects the likelihood of a company implementing an innovation. This paper uses data from a survey of Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in 2011, 2014 and 2017, and asks whether immigrant-owned SMEs were more likely to innovate during the three years prior to the survey than those owned by Canadian-born individuals.

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Multinationals play an important role in the world economy because they are larger, innovate more, are more productive and pay higher wages compared with non-multinationals. Multinationals (i.e., firms that have established affiliates or subsidiaries in other countries) have played an increasingly important role in many economies. In Canada, multinationals accounted for only 0.8% of all enterprises in 2016, but they held 67% of all assets in the Canadian economy (Schaffter and Fortier-Labonté 2019). Given the importance of multinationals to the Canadian economy, it is essential for policy makers to understand the economic performance and productivity advantage of multinationals operating in Canada.

To address policy-relevant research questions, a rich micro dataset covering all industries from 2000 to 2014 has been constructed for this study, using several administrative microdata files at Statistics Canada. This dataset is used to delve deeper into and estimate the productivity advantage of multinationals, including the selection and learning effects associated with multinationality. In addition, this study investigates whether and how research and development (R&D) investment contributes to the superior productivity performance of multinationals.

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

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Labour productivity growth in the business sector in Canada started to decline in 2000, from 2.3% per year in the period from 1991 to 2000 to 1.0% per year in the period from 2000 to 2015. This paper examines how innovation, innovation diffusion across firms, and business dynamism affected the productivity slowdown.

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

Description: This classification system was developed conjointly by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Statistics Canada which is the custodian. This shared standard classification, inspired by the Frascati Model 2015 of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will be used by the federal granting agencies and Statistics Canada to collect, and disseminate data related to research and development in Canada. The Canadian Research and Development Classification (CRDC) first official version was the 2020 Version 1.0, now being replaced by CRDC Version 2.0. The CRDC is revised within 2 years for minor changes, and every five years for major revisions. CRDC 2020 Version 2.0 is composed of 3 main pieces: the type of activity or TOA (with 3 categories), the field of research or FOR (with 1,671 fields at the lowest level) and socioeconomic objective or SEO (with 85 main groups at the lowest level).

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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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Summary of the technical workshop on Estimates of Research and Development in the Higher Education Sector (HERD), held in Ottawa on October 16, 2009. Data users and experts from universities and colleges, granting councils and provincial and federal government departments proposed general and detailed recommendations for the methodology applied in estimating the HERD.

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The issue of biotechnology in agriculture has generated much debate. This activity is designed to help students better understand biological systems for producing materials and their advantages over synthetic systems.

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

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This report focusses on new studies that analyse information and communications technology industries, science-based industries, high-technology industries and firms, the knowledge-based economy, and knowledge workers.

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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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The Quebec Institute of Statistics hosted a forum for Statistics Canada and provincial government experts dealing with the subject of science and technology statistics.

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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.

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Statistics Canada is engaged in a project "Information System for Science and Technology" which purpose is to develop useful indicators of activity and a framework to tie them together into a coherent picture of science and technology (S&T) in Canada. The Working papers series is used to publish results of the different initiatives conducted within this project. The produced data are related to the activities, linkages and outcomes of S&T. Several key areas are covered such as: innovation, technology diffusion, human resources in S&T and interrelations between different actors involved in S&T. This series also presents important data tabulations taken from regular surveys on R&D and S&T and made possible because of the existing Project.