What Is the Nature of Firms in Research and Development Services Industries?
The purpose of this program is to develop useful indicators of science and technology (S&T) activity in Canada based on a framework that ties them together into a coherent picture. To achieve the purpose, statistical indicators are being developed in five key entities: • Actors: are persons and institutions engaged in (S&T) activities. Measures include distinguishing research and development ( R&D) performers, identifying universities that license their technologies, and determining the field of study of graduates. • Activities: include the creation, transmission or use of S&T knowledge including research and development, innovation, and use of technologies. • Linkages: are the means by which S&T knowledge is transferred among actors. Measures include the flow of graduates to industries, the licensing of a university’s technology to a company, co-authorship of scientific papers, the source of ideas for innovation in industry. • Outcomes: are the medium-term consequences of activities.
