Cities and Growth: Knowledge Spillovers in the Adoption of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

Angela No

The Canadian Economy in Transition from Statistics Canada, Economic Analysis Division

Abstract: This paper examines the presence of knowledge spillovers that affect the adoption of advanced technologies in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It examines whether plants that adopt advanced technologies are more likely to do so when there are other nearby plants that do so within a model of technology adoption.

Keywords: Information and communications technology; Manufacturing; Business performance and ownership; Economic accounts; Regional and urban profiles; Productivity accounts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-02-05
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