Industry Profiles on the Use of Knowledge-Intensive Services

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 Profils industriels sur l’utilisation des services dans les industries manufacturières du Québec.

The project’s objective is to produce five industry profiles to assess how manufacturing firms use knowledge-intensive services (KIS) in their manufacturing output. This research will increase the knowledge on this subject since no statistics or national surveys have approached the aspect of the KIS users in innovation processes and the link between the use of these services and the manufacturing firms’ innovation activities.