Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Economics of Knowledge Creation
- 2 The Innovation Survey
- 3 Patterns of Innovation: Intensity and Types
- 4 Sources of Innovations
- 5 Research and Development and Innovation
- 6 Effects of Innovation
- 7 Innovation and Research and Development in Small and Large Firms
- 8 Innovation Regimes and Type of Innovation
- 9 The Use of Intellectual Property Rights
- 10 Multinationals and the Canadian Innovation Process
- 11 Financing and the Cost of Innovation
- 12 The Diffusion of Innovation
- 13 Strategic Capabilities in Innovative Businesses
- 14 Determinants of Innovation
- 15 Summary
- Appendix The Innovation and Advanced Technology Survey
- References
- Index
3 - Patterns of Innovation: Intensity and Types
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Economics of Knowledge Creation
- 2 The Innovation Survey
- 3 Patterns of Innovation: Intensity and Types
- 4 Sources of Innovations
- 5 Research and Development and Innovation
- 6 Effects of Innovation
- 7 Innovation and Research and Development in Small and Large Firms
- 8 Innovation Regimes and Type of Innovation
- 9 The Use of Intellectual Property Rights
- 10 Multinationals and the Canadian Innovation Process
- 11 Financing and the Cost of Innovation
- 12 The Diffusion of Innovation
- 13 Strategic Capabilities in Innovative Businesses
- 14 Determinants of Innovation
- 15 Summary
- Appendix The Innovation and Advanced Technology Survey
- References
- Index
Summary
INTRODUCTION
This study focuses on the nature of the innovation process in the Canadian manufacturing sector. The innovation process is defined by the intensity and types of innovation, the types of inputs that produce the innovations, the effects of innovation, the importance of research and development, the use of intellectual property in protecting the investment in ideas needed to make innovation work, the financing process, the nature of externalities and networks that are used to diffuse innovations, and the types of skills required to allow innovative firms to succeed.
In this chapter, we begin the process of describing the Canadian innovation process by studying the intensity of different types of innovation. A study of a country's innovation system inevitably faces the questions: How important is innovation? How widespread is it? Therefore, this chapter reports the incidence of innovation, that is, the percentage of firms that introduced a product or process innovation in the three years preceding the survey.
At the foundation of this study is the recognition that the industrial population is heterogeneous and so, too, are the types of innovations being brought to market. Small and large firms may have differential innovation capabilities — with small firms more adept at product development in the early stages of a product life cycle and large firms more capable of the type of process improvements that are critical in the mature stage of the product life cycle (Rothwell and Zegveld, 1982; Acs and Audretsch, 1990).
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- Innovation and Knowledge Creation in an Open EconomyCanadian Industry and International Implications, pp. 43 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003