Using data from the Information and Communications Technologies in Schools Survey (ICTSS), this paper provides key indicators of connectedness for Canada's elementary and secondary schools. National and provincial measures of ICT infrastructure and reach are examined across a number of school variables, including instructional level, size, location and type of school administration. Teacher skills and practices, as well as challenges to using ICTs in the learning environment are also addressed.
The Science, Innovation & Electronic Information Division of Statistics Canada promotes research workshops on technological and related organizational change. Five research workshops were held between 1997 & 2002 and each gave rise to a set of papers that appear only in books published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in Boston. This report lists these papers by volume & by author as an aid to research into technological and related organizational change. The five workshops & published volumes all deal with innovation from different perspectives: regional effects, networks, alliances & partnerships, information & communication technologies, biotechnology, and knowledge management practices.
This paper presents an index of specialization (the location quotient) for Canada's 50 largest communities. It also presents the initial analysis comparing changes in specialization in selected high-technology industries with changes in employment in these communities.
These notes capture some of the presentations & subsequent discussions that took place during the meeting of Statistics Canada's Science, Innovation & Electronic Information Division. For two days, over 20 people talked about innovation from different perspectives and sought common understanding of the issues and consensus on where work on the subject should be heading in the medium or longer term. Themes covered in the meeting include the research context of innovation, the role of federal policy, the effects & correlates of innovation & technological change, knowledge management and innovation, the geography of innovation, innovation as a social process, and surveys & other research to be conducted in the coming year.
The main purpose of this paper is to examine whether disparities in the geographic distribution of jobs and research & development (R & D) spending in the business services sector persist or disappear over time. Data for the analysis come from the Survey of Research & Development in Canadian Industry, 1990-2000. The paper first profiles the regional disparities that characterize R & D performers in the sector under study, then analyzes the structure of R & D expenditures and employment using indices of R & D specialization, competitiveness, and diversification. These indices are intended to reflect the various forms of knowledge spillovers. To round out the analysis, the paper assesses the convergence of regional disparities in R & D spending per employee. From that assessment, a summary is provided of the source of regional differences in R & D effort. Comparison of these efforts will give a more direct picture of the nature of the competition between regions and industries in the business services sector.
This paper is based on information from the 2002 Survey of Electronic Commerce & Technology and provides new estimates of the rate of acquisition of significantly improved technologies in the private sector. The analysis covers the following themes: the impact of firm size & sector on technological change; the extent to which firms supported technological change by employee training; the methods used to acquire new technologies. Information on the survey methodology is appended.
This document studies the characteristics of Canadian firms that have made the transition from small to medium size. It is based on interviews that were developed to complement the statistical analysis. Factors studied include research and development, business alliances, competence in funding, intellectual property protection, market niche, business advice, formal organization and planning, innovation, and adaptability.
This working paper analyzes community-level data from the 1999 Survey of Innovation and compares the percentage of innovative manufacturing establishments in Canadian communities to the national estimate. Trends by type of geographic area (Census Metropolitan Area or Census Area) and by location are also discussed.
This paper analyzes data from the Survey of Electronic Commerce and Technology 2002, which examined the acquisition of significantly improved technologies and the introduction of new or significantly improved products to the market. The target groups are technological innovators (firms that acquired new technologies and/or sold new products) and non-innovators (firms that neither acquired new technologies nor sold new products). The paper begins by introducing the groups under study and their distribution across firms of different employment size groups. It then looks at innovators by their use of information & communication technologies (ICT), with specific reference to firms with under 20 employees; the presence on the World Wide Web of technological innovators; barriers to ICT use; and methods used to introduce technological change.
This is a condensed version of the study "Unveiling the digital divide" (Connectedness series), catalogue no. 56F0004MIE no. 7, and covers the same subject matter. The digital divide, commonly understood as the gap between information and communications technology (ICT) 'haves' and 'have-nots', has emerged as an important issue of our times, largely due to the uneven diffusion of the Internet. Many variables, including income, education, age and geographical location, exert significant influences on household penetration of both ICT and non-ICT commodities. Thus, divides can be defined for any permutation of the above. In the case of ICTs, divides depend on the specific technology, its timing of introduction, as well as the variable of interest. This study shows that the digital divide is sizeable; ICT penetration rates grow with income. Generally, the effect of income is larger on newer ICTs (Internet, computers, cell phones) than older and established ones (television, telephone). Then, using the Internet penetration of households by detailed income level, it finds that in an overall sense the Internet divide is slowly closing. This, however, is the result of the accelerated adoption of the Internet by middle-income households - particularly upper middle. The Internet divide is widening when the lowest income deciles are compared with the highest income decile. At the same time, the rates of growth of Internet adoption among lower-income households exceed those of higher-income households. This is typical of penetration patterns of ICT and non-ICT commodities. Rates of growth are initially very high among high-income groups, but at later stages it is the penetration of lower-income groups that grows faster.
This working paper illustrates the industries and communities that have the highest proportions of quickly growing small firms. It provides an estimate of the number of small companies that have grown to medium-sized between 1995 and 2000. The data analysed in this paper are from the LEAP-SAF (Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program: Small Area File), a synthetic database constructed from various administrative sources.
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