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  • 1. Distribution of federal expenditures on science and technology, by province and territories, 1999-2000 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010127904
    Description:

    This service bulletin presents the geographic distribution of federal government science and technology expenditures. Data on federal government expenditures on science and technology are found in Volume 25 No. 9 of this publication series, released in November 2001. In both this and the earlier bulletin, science and technology (S&T) expenditures are the sum of expenditures on research and development (R&D) and on related scientific activities (RSA).

    Release date: 2001-12-21
  • 2. Estimates of Canadian Research and Development Expenditures (GERD), Canada, 1990 to 2001e, and by Province 1990 to 1999 Archived
    Articles and reports: 88F0006X2001014
    Description:

    This publication presents the national gross domestic expenditures on research and development (GERD) from 1990 to 2001 as well as the Provincial GERD from 1990 to 1999. Up until 1985, GERD included research and development (R&D) expenditures in the Natural Sciences and Engineering (NSE) only. Beginning in 1985, Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) activities are also included in GERD. An additional series of tables showing R&D expenditures at the national level in either science from 1963 to 1989, or at the provincial level from 1979 to 1989, may be obtained from the Science and Innovation Surveys Section, Science, Innovation and Electronic Information Division.

    Release date: 2001-12-21
  • 3. Estimation of Research and Development Expenditures in the Higher Education Sector, 1999-2000 Archived
    Articles and reports: 88F0006X2001015
    Description:

    This paper provides an explanation of the estimation procedures used to calculate 1999-2000 research and development (R&D) expenditures in the higher education sector, as well as further refinement based upon investigations.

    Release date: 2001-12-21
  • 4. Determinants of science and technology skills: overview of the study Archived
    Articles and reports: 81-003-X20010016030
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article, the first of three, gives an overview of this study of the determinants of elementary and high school mathematics and science performance, the economic returns of adult literacy, and the diffusion of science and technology (S&T) graduates into the work force.

    Release date: 2001-12-19
  • 5. Scientific and technological (S&T) activities of provincial governments, 1992-93 to 2000-2001 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010117907
    Description:

    The provincial government sector consists of all provincial government departments, ministries and agencies and provincial research organizations. The Provincial Research Organizations (PRO) are surveyed separately and are not reported here. The PRO values are reported in Vol. 24, No. 4 of these publications.

    Release date: 2001-12-18
  • 6. Research and development (R&D) expenditures of private and non-profit (PNP) organizations, 2000 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010107909
    Description:

    This release provides data on the research and development activities of the private non-profit sector. Although the contribution of this sector to the national R&D effort is small in dollar terms, its impact, particularly in the university sector, is significant. Questionnaires were mailed to 95 private non-profit organizations thought to be supporting research and development activities. Twenty-two organizations reported performing research and development.

    Release date: 2001-12-05
  • 7. Patterns of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) Use in Canadian Manufacturing: 1998 AMT Survey Results Archived
    Articles and reports: 88F0017M2001012
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This report covers the use and planned use of 26 advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) at the establishment level. Additional information on skill requirements, technology development and implementation practices, results of technology adoption, barriers to adoption and firms' research and development activities was obtained from the 1998 Survey of Advanced Technologies in Canadian Manufacturing.

    Release date: 2001-11-29
  • 8. Science, Innovation and Electronic Information Division Research Papers Archived
    Journals and periodicals: 88F0017M
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Statistics Canada is engaged in an Information System for Science and Technology Project which purpose is to develop useful indicators of activity and a framework to tie them together into a coherent picture of science and technology in Canada. This series publishes analytical work relating to science and technology issues. These documents relate to specific questions or complex analyses derived from survey results conducted at Statistics Canada. More speculative studies related to science and technology issues are also published.

    Release date: 2001-11-29
  • 9. Science statistics: Federal government expenditures on scientific activities, 2001-2002 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010097912
    Description:

    This bulletin provides recent information on the performance and funding of Federal Government Expenditures on Scientific Activities, 2001-2002. The statistics presented are derived from the survey of the science and technology (S&T) activities of federal departments and agencies. According to international convention, S&T is divided into two fields; Natural Sciences and Engineering (NSE) and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). These fields of science are further divided into Research and Development (R&D) and Related Scientific Activities (RSA).

    Release date: 2001-11-20
  • 10. Total spending on research and development in Canada, 1990 to 2001, and provinces, 1990 to 1999 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010087913
    Geography: Province or territory
    Description:

    Gross domestic expenditures on research and development (GERD) represents total R&D expenditures performed in a country's national territory during a given year. GERD includes research and development performed within a country and funded from abroad but excludes payments sent abroad for research and development performed in other countries.

    Release date: 2001-11-02
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  • 1. Distribution of federal expenditures on science and technology, by province and territories, 1999-2000 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010127904
    Description:

    This service bulletin presents the geographic distribution of federal government science and technology expenditures. Data on federal government expenditures on science and technology are found in Volume 25 No. 9 of this publication series, released in November 2001. In both this and the earlier bulletin, science and technology (S&T) expenditures are the sum of expenditures on research and development (R&D) and on related scientific activities (RSA).

    Release date: 2001-12-21
  • 2. Scientific and technological (S&T) activities of provincial governments, 1992-93 to 2000-2001 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010117907
    Description:

    The provincial government sector consists of all provincial government departments, ministries and agencies and provincial research organizations. The Provincial Research Organizations (PRO) are surveyed separately and are not reported here. The PRO values are reported in Vol. 24, No. 4 of these publications.

    Release date: 2001-12-18
  • 3. Research and development (R&D) expenditures of private and non-profit (PNP) organizations, 2000 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010107909
    Description:

    This release provides data on the research and development activities of the private non-profit sector. Although the contribution of this sector to the national R&D effort is small in dollar terms, its impact, particularly in the university sector, is significant. Questionnaires were mailed to 95 private non-profit organizations thought to be supporting research and development activities. Twenty-two organizations reported performing research and development.

    Release date: 2001-12-05
  • 4. Science statistics: Federal government expenditures on scientific activities, 2001-2002 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010097912
    Description:

    This bulletin provides recent information on the performance and funding of Federal Government Expenditures on Scientific Activities, 2001-2002. The statistics presented are derived from the survey of the science and technology (S&T) activities of federal departments and agencies. According to international convention, S&T is divided into two fields; Natural Sciences and Engineering (NSE) and Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). These fields of science are further divided into Research and Development (R&D) and Related Scientific Activities (RSA).

    Release date: 2001-11-20
  • 5. Total spending on research and development in Canada, 1990 to 2001, and provinces, 1990 to 1999 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010087913
    Geography: Province or territory
    Description:

    Gross domestic expenditures on research and development (GERD) represents total R&D expenditures performed in a country's national territory during a given year. GERD includes research and development performed within a country and funded from abroad but excludes payments sent abroad for research and development performed in other countries.

    Release date: 2001-11-02
  • 6. Estimation of research and development expenditures in the higher education sector, 1999-2000 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010077914
    Description:

    The higher education sector is composed of "all universities, colleges of technology and other institutes of post-secondary education, whatever their source of finance or legal status. It also includes all research institutes, experimental stations and clinics operating under the direct control of, or administered by, or associated with higher education establishments."

    Release date: 2001-10-26
  • 7. Industrial research and development, 1997 to 2001 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010067915
    Description:

    The statistics in this bulletin are derived from the 1999 survey of industrial research and development activities in Canada, which covers firms spending a million dollars or more on the performance or funding of research and development in Canada, and from the administrative data of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) for firms which spend less than a million dollars on the performance or funding of research and development in Canada. The use of CCRA data results in a small understatement in total figures for the most recent years reported.

    Release date: 2001-07-16
  • 8. Research and development (R&D) personnel in Canada, 1990 to 1999 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010057916
    Description:

    Canada's economic competitiveness depends on scientific and technological development and also on the people responsible for this development, especially those engaged in research and development . The number of research and development personnel is a supplementary measure to the statistics on intramural expenditures on research and development . The Frascati Manual states that "Data on the utilisation of scientific and technical personnel provide concrete measurements for international comparisons of resources devoted to research and development.

    Release date: 2001-05-30
  • 9. Estimates of total spending on research and development in the health field in Canada, 1988 to 2000 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010027920
    Description:

    Canadian health research is conducted in universities, teaching hospitals, business enterprises, government laboratories and private non-profit organizations. This research is funded from a variety of sources including public, private, domestic and foreign.

    Release date: 2001-03-30
  • 10. Distribution of federal expenditures on science and technology, by province and territories, 1998-99 Archived
    Stats in brief: 88-001-X20010017921
    Description:

    This service bulletin presents the geographic distribution of federal government science and technology expenditures. Data on federal government expenditures on science and technology are found in Volume 24, No. 5 of this publication, released in November, 2000. In both this and the earlier bulletin, science and technology (S&T) expenditures are the sum of expenditures on research and development (R&D) and on related scientific activities (RSA).

    Release date: 2001-01-31
Articles and reports (33)

Articles and reports (33) (0 to 10 of 33 results)

  • 1. Estimates of Canadian Research and Development Expenditures (GERD), Canada, 1990 to 2001e, and by Province 1990 to 1999 Archived
    Articles and reports: 88F0006X2001014
    Description:

    This publication presents the national gross domestic expenditures on research and development (GERD) from 1990 to 2001 as well as the Provincial GERD from 1990 to 1999. Up until 1985, GERD included research and development (R&D) expenditures in the Natural Sciences and Engineering (NSE) only. Beginning in 1985, Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) activities are also included in GERD. An additional series of tables showing R&D expenditures at the national level in either science from 1963 to 1989, or at the provincial level from 1979 to 1989, may be obtained from the Science and Innovation Surveys Section, Science, Innovation and Electronic Information Division.

    Release date: 2001-12-21
  • 2. Estimation of Research and Development Expenditures in the Higher Education Sector, 1999-2000 Archived
    Articles and reports: 88F0006X2001015
    Description:

    This paper provides an explanation of the estimation procedures used to calculate 1999-2000 research and development (R&D) expenditures in the higher education sector, as well as further refinement based upon investigations.

    Release date: 2001-12-21
  • 3. Determinants of science and technology skills: overview of the study Archived
    Articles and reports: 81-003-X20010016030
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article, the first of three, gives an overview of this study of the determinants of elementary and high school mathematics and science performance, the economic returns of adult literacy, and the diffusion of science and technology (S&T) graduates into the work force.

    Release date: 2001-12-19
  • 4. Patterns of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) Use in Canadian Manufacturing: 1998 AMT Survey Results Archived
    Articles and reports: 88F0017M2001012
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This report covers the use and planned use of 26 advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) at the establishment level. Additional information on skill requirements, technology development and implementation practices, results of technology adoption, barriers to adoption and firms' research and development activities was obtained from the 1998 Survey of Advanced Technologies in Canadian Manufacturing.

    Release date: 2001-11-29
  • 5. Interpreting innovation indicators Archived
    Articles and reports: 88-003-X20010035967
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    In 1997, 41% of engineering services firms identified themselves as innovators, but only 4% of them had introduced breakthrough products or processes that had the potential of putting these firms in the role of global leaders. There's more than meets the eye in interpreting the myriad of indicators describing the "system of innovation".

    Release date: 2001-10-31
  • 6. Survey of knowledge management practices, 2001 Archived
    Articles and reports: 88-003-X20010035968
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Statistics Canada is conducting a pilot survey on Knowledge Management Practices beginning in September 2001. The primary objectives are to determine what business practices are used to support the sharing, transfer, acquisition and retention of knowledge by Canadian firms and whether the firms find these practices effective.

    Release date: 2001-10-31
  • 7. Use of biotechnologies by Canadian biotechnology firms Archived
    Articles and reports: 88-003-X20010035970
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This article looks at the use of biotechnology, obstacles to commercialization and information sources on biotechnology.

    Release date: 2001-10-31
  • 8. Selected strategies and practices of Canadian biotechnology firms: Results from the Biotechnology Use and Development Survey - 1999 Archived
    Articles and reports: 88-003-X20010035971
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Biotechnology firms are generally flexible and innovative in their approaches to survival and growth in Canada and also on the world stage. Read an overview of some of the business strategies and practices used by biotechnology firms to conduct research and development and for some, commercialization of their products.

    Release date: 2001-10-31
  • 9. Canadian biotech firms: Extent of networking activities and commercialization obstacles Archived
    Articles and reports: 88-003-X20010035972
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Based on information from the 1997 Biotechnology Firm Survey, we know biotechnology firms generated $813 million in biotech revenues; employed 9,000 people in biotech-related activities and had almost 9,000 products across all stages of development. Explore issues such as - What are the main features of this sector? What is the extent of networking activities by the firms? And what kinds of problems are they facing when selling their products?

    Release date: 2001-10-31
  • 10. Innovation in Canadian Manufacturing: Provincial Estimates Archived
    Articles and reports: 88F0006X2001013
    Description:

    The Survey of Innovation 1999 was conducted in the fall of 1999. It surveyed manufacturing and was the first innovation survey of selected natural resource industries. This is the second in a series of working papers that will examine the results from the Survey of Innovation 1999. This second paper examines innovative manufacturing firms at the provincial level. It includes descriptive statistics and statistical tables for selected questions from the survey.

    Release date: 2001-09-27
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Journals and periodicals (1) ((1 result))

  • 1. Science, Innovation and Electronic Information Division Research Papers Archived
    Journals and periodicals: 88F0017M
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    Statistics Canada is engaged in an Information System for Science and Technology Project which purpose is to develop useful indicators of activity and a framework to tie them together into a coherent picture of science and technology in Canada. This series publishes analytical work relating to science and technology issues. These documents relate to specific questions or complex analyses derived from survey results conducted at Statistics Canada. More speculative studies related to science and technology issues are also published.

    Release date: 2001-11-29
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