Annex B. Measuring the impact of location on R&D transfers between universities and enterprises
This annex presents the analysis of the interactions between Québec HEIs’ and enterprises in terms of R&D expenditure, taking into account the spatial dimension, in co-operation with Alessandro Alasia, Julio Rosa, and Mahamat Hamit-Haggar from Statistics Canada. The results inform Chapter 3 of the review of Québec.
This assessment uses the Linkable File Environment (LFE), a statistical tool developed by Statistics Canada. The LFE combines administrative data and survey data from multiple sources. In particular, this study uses the following data sources:
Statistics Canada’s Research and Development in Canadian Industry Survey (RDCI) 2017 to 2019 linked to administrative data is the main data source (unbalanced panel of 20,001 R&D business performers).
The main variable of interest is the distance between the enterprise and the closest university, among other firms’ dimensions such as size; revenue; sector of activity; provinces; public grants; foreign outsourced expenditures. The dependent variables are: