Technological Progress And Competitiveness In The Canadian Forest Products Industry

Author : Steven Globerman
Publisher : Canadian Forest Service, Science Branch
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Competition
ISBN : MINN:31951D02028481H

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Technological Progress and Competitiveness in the Canadian Forest Products Industry by Steven Globerman Pdf

This report synthesizes current information and expert opinions pertaining to technological innovation & competitiveness and assesses the technological performance of the Canadian forest products sector. The opening chapter examines the process of technological innovation and technology's role in and impact on society. The next chapter assesses the technological capacity of the forest sector and describes some approaches for evaluating the adequacy of research and development funding. Chapter four identifies and discusses features and characteristics of the Canadian forest products sector and market that affect the industry's technological capacity and rate of innovation. The last chapter examines the changing competitive circumstances of the industry and how these conditions are expected to circumscribe the industry's future technological requirements. It also reviews and summarizes findings from previous chapters and reorganizes them into issues and considerations for positioning the forest sector in a knowledge-based global market. The appendix contains an overview of organizations involved in forestry and forest products research and development in Canada.

Author : A. Ghebremichael
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Forest productivity
ISBN : 1536118508

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Exploring Potential Synergy Between Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management and Technological Progress in Regionally Segmented Canadian Logging Industries by A. Ghebremichael Pdf

Explaining the natural limits on the carrying capacity of forest ecosystems to natural and human-induced disturbances underpinned the goal of this study. Hypothesised mutually reinforcing beneficial effects of sustainable forest ecosystem management (SFEM) practices and total factor productivity growth (TFPG) in regionally segmented Canadian logging industries were examined. Two complementary methodologies were applied: (1) A normative bioeconomic analysis of SFEM, and (2) an analysis of TFPG, which is a commonly accepted indicator of technological progress. Sluggish, but upward trends in TFPG appeared to support the hypothesised outcomes that logging operations were technically efficient, that firms in each regional industry had comparative cost advantages in the marketplace, and that the unavoidable adverse effects of logging operations on integrity of forest ecosystems were tolerable, given the economic fact that logging sustains the forest sectors significant role in the overall performance of the national economy. However, low TFPG implied a need for strategic policy that would boost investments in research and development to promote technological progress, so as to ensure environmental quality, sustainable timber supply, and competitiveness in the Canadian forest sector. Society derives multiple benefits from TFPG that include: (i) A synergetic combination of factor accumulation and TFPG, which is one of the engines of economic growth; (ii) a minimisation of the natural capital stock, timber, and depletion; (iii) the mitigation of the wasteful use of scarce-productive resources; (iv) the mitigation of adverse impacts of inflation on economic growth; (v) the maximisation of profits due to economic savings made in production processes; (vi) the reallocation of freed productive resources to the production of other goods and services, leading to technical and economic efficiency; and (vii) the improvements in the competitive position of the Canadian forest sector. Accordingly, this book concluded with a list of policy recommendations.

Author : Science Council of Canada
Publisher : Science Council of Canada
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Forest products industry
ISBN : MINN:31951D00082631Y

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A Sectoral Approach to Innovation by Science Council of Canada Pdf

The forest-products industries are Canada's largest industrial sector andaccount for one job in every seven. This statement is issued to stimulateaction toward an innovation strategy for the forest-product industriesbuilding on a background study of R & D and technological innovation in theseindustries and discussions with a number of industry leaders.

Author : Canadian Forest Service
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0788104535

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The State of Canada's Forests by Canadian Forest Service Pdf

Author : Larisa V Shavinina
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780080441986

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The International Handbook on Innovation by Larisa V Shavinina Pdf

The breadth of this work will allow the reader to acquire a comprehensive and panoramic picture of the nature of innovation within a single handbook.

Author : Canada. Committee on the Competitiveness of the Resource Industries,Canada. National Advisory Board on Science and Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Competition, International
ISBN : MINN:31951P00259647C

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Competitiveness in the Canadian Mining and Forestry Industries by Canada. Committee on the Competitiveness of the Resource Industries,Canada. National Advisory Board on Science and Technology Pdf

Author : Roger Hayter,Science Council of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951000426664T

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Technology and the Canadian Forest-product Industries by Roger Hayter,Science Council of Canada Pdf

Author : Carleton University. School of Public Policy and Administration
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773532281

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Innovation, Science, Environment 07/08 by Carleton University. School of Public Policy and Administration Pdf

The impact of climate change is becoming increasingly obvious around the world but different levels of the Canadian government are failing to respond cohesively. For example, the Harper government immediately cut several liberal-era environmental research programs and admitted that Canada has been moving away from Kyoto Protocol targets and that the Kyoto Protocol is not central to its idea of either good environmental or good energy policy. Meanwhile, a Quebec liberal government announced that it would introduce a carbon tax to reduce CO2 emissions by 10 million tons by 2012 while Canada's mayors introduced their own climate change initiatives, linking them to local infrastructure development. This second volume in the ISE series examines the reshaping of ISE policy in the context of multi-level governance and policy. Contributors examine climate change policy, innovation in the natural resources sector, the internet pharmacy trade, biotechnology policy and governance, provincial government renewable energy policies, the psychological and human nature connection with sustainable development policies, procurement policy and innovation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the commercialization of Canada's universities.

Author : David Cartwright,Canada-British Columbia Partnership Agreement on Forest Resource Development: FRDA II.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Forest products
ISBN : MINN:31951D01790668U

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British Columbia Forest Products Industry by David Cartwright,Canada-British Columbia Partnership Agreement on Forest Resource Development: FRDA II. Pdf

Author : Suzanne Wetzel,Luc C. Duchesne,Michael F. Laporte
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402049927

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Bioproducts From Canada's Forests by Suzanne Wetzel,Luc C. Duchesne,Michael F. Laporte Pdf

For the first time, this opportune book provides a comprehensive treatment of the many innovative, non-timber bioproducts that may be derived from Canada’s vast forests, including their potential economic, social and environmental impacts. It also offers a balanced discussion of the technological, policy and regulatory issues surrounding the emerging global bioeconomy. This book will not only be of interest to Canadian forestry professionals and entrepreneurs, but also to those interested in the contribution of forestry to the bioeconomy worldwide.

Author : John N. H. Britton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773513566

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Canada and the Global Economy by John N. H. Britton Pdf

A collection of essays by twenty-three of Canada's leading economic geographers, Canada and the Global Economy is a comprehensive study of the evolving economic and geographic patterns of Canadian development. It provides a benchmark for research on the spatial development of the Canadian economy. The contributors explore four central themes: the locational impacts of the openness of the Canadian economy, Canada's relatively simple economic geography in terms of regional variations in resources and urban development, the problems of keeping pace with rapid advances in technology, and the role of government in maintaining a national market and assisting economic development. They outline the essential elements of Canada's contemporary economic geography and highlight the origins and spatial imprint of change in the Canadian economy; in particular they provide an assessment of Canada's participation in significant international patterns of economic change. Canada and the Global Economy is concerned not only with the economic size and location of consumption and production but also with institutional changes and shifts in employment, the sectoral composition of economic activity, and the organizational structure and locational behaviour of particular industries and firms. Special attention is given to the technological development of both established industries and new service and manufacturing activities. A timely addition to the field, it provides a geographic perspective on significant changes in jobs and types of work that result from the transformation of economic activities.

Author : Canadian Council of Forest Ministers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:719891836

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National Forest Sector Strategy For Canada by Canadian Council of Forest Ministers Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Forest products industry
ISBN : UIUC:30112117916376

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The State of Canada's Forests by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Advisory Board on Science and Technology (Canada). Committee on the Competitiveness of the Resource Industries,Benjamin Torchinsky
Publisher : Committee on the Competitiveness of the Resource Industries
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Competition
ISBN : LCCN:ce94700123

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Competitiveness in the Canadian Mining and Forestry Industries by National Advisory Board on Science and Technology (Canada). Committee on the Competitiveness of the Resource Industries,Benjamin Torchinsky Pdf

Author : Canada. Forestry Canada,Canada. Forestry Canada. Ontario Region
Publisher : Forestry Canada
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951D03084950K

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Forestry Canada in Ontario by Canada. Forestry Canada,Canada. Forestry Canada. Ontario Region Pdf

This plan was developed in consultation with clients and staff and is based on the national strategic plan of Forestry Canada. It describes the economic and social changes that impact upon the forestry industry, the challenges to the year 2000 and commitments in forest system research, forest industry competitiveness, environmental impacts research, scientific innovation and communication.