Innovation capabilities : Capacités d'innovation, utilisation de technologies, croissance de la productivité et rendement des entreprises, résultats des enquêtes canadiennes sur la technologie

The Canadian Economy in Transition Research Paper Series The Canadian Economy in Transition is a series of new analytical reports that investigate the dynamics of industrial change in the Canadian economy. [...] The level of uncertainty will depend on several factors: the nature of the functional form used in the multivariate analysis; the type of econometric technique employed; the appropriateness of the statistical assumptions embedded in the model or technique; the comprehensiveness of the variables included in the analysis; and the accuracy of the data that are utilized. [...] This indicates that technology strategy is an important separate facet of innovation that affects a firm’s performance and substantiates the macro evidence that has linked the productivity resurgence in the 1990s to the ICT revolution. [...] Statistics Canada has conducted three major surveys on advanced technology use in the manufacturing sector: the 1989 Survey of Manufacturing Technology (SMT), the 1993 Survey of Innovation and Advanced Technology (SIAT) and the 1998 Survey of Advanced Technology in Canadian Manufacturing (SATM). [...] The fact that specific technologies are significant, even with the capital- deepening variable included, suggests that some forms of capital may be more important than others—in particular, that network communications technologies were at the core of the technological revolution that the electronic chip brought about in the early 1990s.