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7 Innovation Surveys
Pages 30-32

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... This remark led to a series of related questions about the importance of the types of innovations occurring, their national sources, and their effects on the Canadian economy. With data on knowledge sources, Statistics Canada has been able to develop profiles identifying characteristics of innovative firms and highlighting such characteristics as the tendency to invest heavily in human skill development.
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From page 31...
... A privately conducted survey, administered in 1994 by a Carnegie Mellon University research team headed by Wesley Cohen, collected information from manufacturing firm R&D laboratory or unit directors on the determinants of R&D activity and performance. Data were collected on such issues as firms' use and perceptions of the effectiveness of different mechanisms for protecting intellectual property in order to appropriate the returns to their innovations, sources of new technical information, interactions with competitors, and the speed at which new products or processes are imitated.
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... · Prospective data users, including research analysts, policy makers, and business executives, should participate in preparing the questions. · Draft survey instruments should be pretested informally with prospective respondents.
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