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Innovation, Survival and Performance of Canadian Manufacturing Plants

Baldwin, John R.; Gu, Wulong - 2009

This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market … share and survival in the Canadian manufacturing sector. The paper presents a model that examines the effect of innovation … plant performance both before and after the introduction of an innovation. We find strong evidence that labour productivity …

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Canada's Investments in Science and Innovation : Is the Existing Concept of Research and Development Sufficient?

Baldwin, John R.; Beckstead, Desmond; Gellatly, Guy - 2012

required for the Accounts should incorporate a broad range of science-based innovation costs and that this broader R&D concept … science-based innovation expenditures are to be capitalized, GDP will increase. But it appears that Canada's innovation system … is directed more towards non-R&D science-based expenditures than the innovation systems of many other countries. If …

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Business Strategies in Innovative and Non-Innovative Firms in Canada

Baldwin, John R.; Johnson, Joanne - 2000

This study investigates differences in the policies being pursued by innovative and non-innovative firms. It focuses on a broad group of strategies in marketing, finance, production, management and human resources and asks whether there are key areas in which the strategies being followed by...

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Technology Use and Industrial Transformation : Empirical Perspectives

Baldwin, John R.; Diverty, Brent; Sabourin, David - 1998

This study examines technology use in Canada's manufacturing sector and how a set of technology-using manufacturing establishments performed relative to non-users. Data originates from a recent Statistics Canada survey, asking manufacturing firms about their use of 22 advanced manufacturing...

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Innovation Capabilities : Technology Use, Productivity Growth and Business Performance: Evidence from Canadian Technology Surveys

Baldwin, John R. - 2015

This paper summarizes the results of several research studies conducted by the Micro-economic Analysis Division of Statistics Canada that investigate the impact of advanced technology use on business performance. These studies combine establishment-level survey data on advanced technology...

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Advanced Technology Use in Canadian Manufacturing Establishments

Baldwin, John R. - 1998

This paper investigates the characteristics of Canadian manufacturing plants that are related to the use of advanced technologies. The data used are taken from the 1989 Survey of Manufacturing Technology and are linked to administrative data taken from the Census of Manufacturers. Technology use...

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Canada's investments in science and innovation : is the existing concept of research and development sufficient?

Baldwin, John R.; Beckstead, Desmond; Gellatly, Guy - 2005

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The Effect of Changing Technology Use on Plant Performance in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector

Baldwin, John R.; Sabourin, David - 2009

, probably through its impact on product innovation. The market rewards those businesses that managed to improve their efficiency …

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Death of Canadian Manufacturing Plants : Heterogeneous Responses to Changes in Tariffs and Real Exchange Rates

Baldwin, John R. - 2010

We examine the simultaneous effects of real-exchange-rate movements and of tariff reductions on plant death in Canadian manufacturing industries between 1979 and 1996. We find that both currency appreciation and tariff cuts increase the probability of plant death, but that tariff reductions have...

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Innovation in Canadian manufacturing enterprises

Baldwin, John R.; DaPont, Morena - 1996

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