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Stratégie de mise à niveau technologique des entreprises québécoises

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  • Benoit Dostie
  • Genevieve Dufour

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We examine the technology upgrading strategies of Quebec firms by comparing their adoption rates of new technologies to those of firms in the rest of Canada using data from Statistics Canada's Survey of Innovation and Business Strategies (SIBS) for the years 2009, 2012, and 2017. For 2017, we find that Quebec is in line with the Canadian average in terms of adoption of advanced technologies, and even ahead in terms of emerging technologies. An econometric analysis of the determinants of the adoption of these technologies then allows us to identify some explanatory factors for the differences in adoption rates between firms. We find that large firms, firms with export activities outside of Canada, firms facing higher competition, and firms with a higher percentage of employees with a university degree are all more likely to adopt new advanced technologies. Finally, we compare other upgrading strategies regarding the adoption of advanced management practices and innovation strategies. Nous examinons les stratégies de mise à niveau technologiques des entreprises québécoises en comparant leur taux d’adoption des nouvelles technologies à celles des entreprises du reste du Canada à l’aide des données de l’Enquête sur l’innovation et les stratégies d’entreprise (EISE) de Statistique Canada pour les années 2009, 2012 et 2017. Pour 2017, nous constatons que le Québec se situe dans la moyenne canadienne en ce qui a trait à l’adoption des technologies de pointe, et même en avance pour ce qui est des technologies émergentes. Une analyse économétrique des déterminants de l’adoption de ces technologies permet ensuite d’identifier certains facteurs explicatifs des différences dans les taux d’adoption entre les entreprises. Nous constatons que les grandes entreprises, celles avec des activités d’exportation à l’extérieur du Canada, celles faisant face à un taux de compétition plus élevé et celles avec un plus fort pourcentage d’employés ayant un diplôme universitaire sont toutes plus enclines à adopter davantage les nouvelles technologies de pointe. Finalement, nous comparons d’autres stratégies de mise à niveau concernant l’adoption de pratiques de gestion de pointe et de stratégies d’innovation.

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  • Benoit Dostie & Genevieve Dufour, 2023. "Stratégie de mise à niveau technologique des entreprises québécoises," CIRANO Project Reports 2023rp-01, CIRANO.
    • Handle: RePEc:cir:cirpro:2023rp-01
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    Keywords

    Innovation; technology adoption; adoption rates; digital transformation; Innovation; adoption des technologies; taux d’adoption; transformation numérique;
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