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This paper assesses productivity trends in Canada vis-a-vis the United States from two perspectives. The first one is based on estimates of total factor productivity. The second one decomposes productivity growth into two sources: investment-specific technical change, associated with improvements in the quality of the capital stock, and neutral technical change, associated with the organization of productive activities. The results indicate that investment-specific technical change is the major underlying cause of the pickup in productivity in Canada and the narrowing of the productivity gap with the United States.

Investments: Stocks --- Macroeconomics --- Production and Operations Management --- Industries: Information Technololgy --- Innovation --- Research and Development --- Technological Change --- Intellectual Property Rights: General --- One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models --- Measurement of Economic Growth --- Aggregate Productivity --- Cross-Country Output Convergence --- Economywide Country Studies: U.S. --- Canada --- Macroeconomics: Production --- Production --- Cost --- Capital and Total Factor Productivity --- Capacity --- Labor Economics: General --- Pension Funds --- Non-bank Financial Institutions --- Financial Instruments --- Institutional Investors --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Saving --- Wealth --- Technological Change: Choices and Consequences --- Diffusion Processes --- Labour --- income economics --- Investment & securities --- Information technology industries --- Productivity --- Total factor productivity --- Labor --- Stocks --- Consumption --- Financial institutions --- Emerging technologies --- Technology --- Industrial productivity --- Labor economics --- Economics --- United States

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Innovation Policy and the Economy provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. The distinguished contributors cover all types of policy that affect the ability of an economy to achieve scientific and technological progress or that affect the impact of science and technology on economic growth.

Technological innovations --- Diffusion of innovations --- Innovations --- Government policy --- Economic aspects --- Politique gouvernementale --- Aspect économique --- Diffusion --- Innovations, Diffusion of --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Acculturation --- Communication --- Culture diffusion --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Innowacje --- Innovations. --- Innowacje. --- Diffusion.

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A broad look at current and emergent developments in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), and at how improved transportation systems can have a significant impact on lifestyle. It draws together and reviews the social, economic and environmental issues, and utilizes real-life case studies.

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This paper extends Grossman and Helpman’s seminal work (1991), and presents an endogenous growth model where innovations created in a high-tech sector may be assimilated or adapted by a low-tech sector. Applying a simple Heckscher-Ohlin framework, the effects of technological diffusion are found to allow a country relatively scarce in human capital to benefit from nondecreasing rates of growth through its low-tech sector. The model is tested by using a dynamic panel data approach (Arellano and Bover, 1995). Results are consistent with the predictions of the model and robust to a broad range of definitions of technological intensity.

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