Telfer Professor Obtains a Research Contract with Industry Canada
Professor David Doloreux and his co-investigator Richard Shearmur, professor and researcher at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Centre Urbanisation, Culture et Société, Université du Québec, have received funding from Industry Canada for a research contract entitled L’impact de l’utilisation des services sur les activités R. et D.
This project examines the use of knowledge-intensive services (KIS) in research and development activities within manufacturing firms. KIS are now viewed as engines of growth of modern economies and play a major part in innovation activities and processes. The results will be instrumental in the orientation of public policies on innovation.
A Telfer MSc Graduate among the winners of the Young Researcher for Health 2010
The Telfer School of Management wishes to congratulate Leanne Idzerda, an MSc in Health Systems graduate. She and six other young researchers under the age of 30 were chosen as winners of the essay competition Young Researchers for Health 2010. This competition was created to identify the next generation of leaders in health systems research. Her essay was entitled Universal Health Care: Who Are We Missing?
The competition was held last November during the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research 2010 in Montreux (Switzerland) and was also organized by The Lancet and the Global Forum on Health Research.
Welcome to Eustache Ebondo, Visiting Professor
The Accounting Research Centre is pleased to welcome Eustache Ebondo as a distinguished visiting Professor from January until July 2011. Professor of Audit, Management Control, Internal Control and Corporate Finance at Euromed Management in Marseille (France), he will collaborate on the Center's research projects with Telfer colleagues.
Telfer Professor Studies Knowledge-Intensive Services in Manufacturing Activities
David Doloreux and his co-investigator Richard Shearmur, Professor and Researcher at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Centre Urbanisation, Culture et Société, Université du Québec, received a $99,500 grant from Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions through the Regional Development Study Program for their research project entitled L’Utilisation des services à forte intensité de connaissance dans la production manufacturière à haute valeur ajouté : étude exploratoire des PME manufacturières du Québec.
The objective of the research project is to study the use and contribution of the knowledge-intensive services (KIS) in high value-added manufacturing activities. The researchers will seek to ascertain the use of knowledge-intensive services by manufacturing firms, assess their impacts on innovation capabilities, and finally, analyze their use and effects according to region, industrial sector, and distance from the urban centres.
The Regional Development Study Program was created to generate and disseminate knowledge that will strengthen the ability of economic development stakeholders to take informed action in developing their regions.
A Second Grant for Telfer Professor Sylvain Durocher
Associate Professor Sylvain Durocher’s research project entitled “Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises: An Adoption Behavior Study” was funded by CGA-Canada and the Canadian Academic Accounting Association Research Grant Program. Professor Anne Fortin from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) is co-investigator on this project.
The Canadian Accounting Standards Board (AcSB) announced that all Publicly Accountable Enterprises will replace the use of the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) by the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), starting January 2011. Since 2009, the enterprises are allowed to adopt the new accounting standards. The objective of the research project is to examine the adoption behaviour of a sample of Canadian private enterprises to identify the factors explaining the timing of the adoption of IFRS (2009, 2010 or 2011), and the policy choices made under the preferred framework.
