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The 1980s: A Window of Opportunity? 100Getting R&D out of the Lab and into Production 102Toward Flexibility and Value Maximization inForest-Product Manufacturing 103Technology Strategies 105Enriching the R&D System 107The Role of In-House R&D by Forest-Product Firms 109The Role of the Cooperative Laboratories 111In-House R&D by Equipment Suppliers 115Promoting In-House R&D in the Forest-Product Industries 118List of TablesTable 1.1: Production and Export Levels of the PrincipalCanadian Forest-Product Commodities, 1971and 198119Table 1.2: Percentage Canadian Forest-Product Exports byProduct and Destination, and Total Value by Product, 1951and 1978 19Table 1.3: Degree of Foreign Control of the CanadianForest-Product Industries, 197920Table 2.1: Total In-House R&D Expenditures, by Industry 28Table 2.2: Employment Levels in In-House R&D by NineCanadian Forest-Product Firms, 1980-1984 32Table 2.3: Employment Levels in In-House R&D by 10 CanadianForest-Product Firms, 1981 and 1984 32Table 2.4: R&D Employment in Canadian Forest-Product Firms,by Major Activity, 1980 and 1983 338
Table 2.5: R&D Employment in 10 Canadian Forest-ProductFirms by Major Activity, 1984 33Table 2.6: Budget and Employment Levels in Three CooperativeLaboratories, 1979 and 1984 37Table 2.7: R&D Budget and Employment Levels amongSampled Equipment Suppliers40Table 3.1: Selected Characteristics of "Important"In-House Technological Developments since 1970by Six Forest-Product Firms 51Table 3.2: Summary Characteristics of "Important"In-House Technological Developments since 1970by Forest-Product Firms 52Table 3.3: Selected Characteristics of the Most Recent In-HouseInnovation for the Forest Industry by Equipment Suppliers 54Table 3.4: Products and Processes Developed by Paprican to23 February 1984 58 & 59Table 3.5: Stages in the Development of Selected Technologiesby Paprican 60Table 3.6: Papritection: Summary of Development 61Table 4.1: Share of Forest Sector Professional R&D Employmentin Canada and the United States in Relation to Their Share ofPopulation, Forest-Product Employment, and the Wood Harvest 69Table 4.2: Canada's Share of Forest-Product R&D inNorth America: Location Quotients 70Table 4.3: Perceptions of Forest-Product Firms about theInnovativeness of Equipment Suppliers Located in Canadaand Elsewhere76Table 4.4: Relative Importance of Liaisons between CorporateR&D Laboratories and Selected External Organizations 779
Page 3 and 4: Science Council of Canada100 Metcal
Page 5 and 6: ContentsForewordAcknowledgments1113
Page 7: In-House R&D by Equipment Suppliers
Page 11 and 12: ForewordTechnological innovation an
Page 14 and 15: adapted sufficiently rapidly to the
Page 16 and 17: Finally, the author interviewed sen
Page 18 and 19: Table 1.3: Degree of Foreign Contro
Page 20 and 21: Figure 1.1: Innovation Patterns and
Page 22 and 23: Since 1945 the pace of technologica
Page 24 and 25: Toward Reliance on Research rather
Page 26 and 27: science occurred between 1900 and 1
Page 28 and 29: Forestry Sector R&D SystemIn Canada
Page 30 and 31: up its forestry research group at N
Page 32 and 33: and one other that was strongly ori
Page 34 and 35: closely involved in the establishme
Page 36 and 37: to vet and control research priorit
Page 38 and 39: In-House R&D by Equipment Suppliers
Page 40 and 41: product. One, by no means atypical,
Page 42 and 43: only internal source of dissolving
Page 44 and 45: of which only 18 per cent came from
Page 46 and 47: New information can be generated by
Page 48 and 49: Chapter 3The R&D System andHow It W
Page 50 and 51: Table 3.2: Summary Characteristics
Page 52 and 53: Sixteen firms provided details on s
Page 54 and 55: The Opco Process: A Case Study of I
Page 56 and 57: however, within the last two decade
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in 1959, and a full-scale experimen
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Papritection was developed as follo
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Further tests were conducted in 198
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fully automatic machines, and its s
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Chapter 4Technological Capability a
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Table 4.2 provides measurements of
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forest-product equipment patents, w
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Foreign-Ownership and In-House R&DT
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Technological Liaisons: Forest-Prod
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for this deficiency the federal gov
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On the other hand, three of the lea
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one of Sweden's forest-products gia
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Capital Investments in the Canadian
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and Quebec accounted for 33.9 per c
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Table 5.5: Canadian Forest-Product
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Scandinavian manufacturers are in t
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was implemented smoothly and manage
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the foundations were poured, until
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inherent capabilities were never fu
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especially in the east, has receive
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"export staples mentality." The bel
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size of the conglomerates would cer
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the concept of flexibility explicit
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This author therefore recommends th
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with respect to technology transfer
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of the R&D system and influence the
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operations, attitudes toward innova
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limited R&D base, but they do empha
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The small size and non-innovative n
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Promoting In-House R&D in the Fores
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Notes1. The Technological Challenge
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7. For example, nj. Daly, "Weak Lin
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7. P.G. Mellgren and E. Heidersdorf
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this R&D facility has become even s
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3. K. Noble, "Forest Industry Urged
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Publications of the ScienceCouncil
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Reports on Matters Referred by the
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No. 40. Government Regulation of th
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1981An Engineer's View of Science E
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