R&D expenditure, Canadian manufacturing firms, 2004 to 2009
Table 2
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Extramural R&D from ASM | Extramural R&D from RDCI | Intramural R&D from RDCI | |
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percent | |||
Proportion of firms with R&D expenditure | |||
All firms | 72.91 | 11.58 | 25.01 |
By export status | |||
Non-exporters | 70.43 | 6.89 | 16.69 |
Exporters | 75.17 | 15.91 | 32.69 |
By industrial sectors | |||
Natural resources | 70.52 | 9.76 | 20.59 |
Labour intensive | 68.61 | 7.82 | 18.28 |
Scale based | 72.77 | 10.92 | 23.52 |
Product differentiated | 78.69 | 15.26 | 34.23 |
Science based | 84.44 | 25.89 | 48.76 |
R&D intensity | |||
All firms | 0.52 | 0.40 | 1.92 |
By export status | |||
Non-exporters | 0.65 | 0.53 | 2.02 |
Exporters | 0.51 | 0.39 | 1.91 |
By industrial sectors | |||
Natural resources | 0.10 | 0.17 | 0.71 |
Labour intensive | 0.34 | 0.29 | 1.75 |
Scale based | 0.18 | 0.38 | 0.84 |
Product differentiated | 1.11 | 0.49 | 3.08 |
Science based | 2.66 | 1.39 | 8.66 |
Notes: The proportion is calculated as the ratio of firms with positive research and development (R&D) spending to the total number of firms in the ASM. Extramural R&D is purchased from domestic and foreign suppliers. Intramural R&D is performed in-house. Sources: Statistics Canada, Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) and Research and Development in Canadian Industry (RDCI) databases. |
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