Title: Competitive industrial development in the age of information : the role of co-operation in the technology sector /
Authors: Braudo, Richard J., 1954-; MacIntosh, Jeffrey G.
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1999
Subjects: High technology industries Government policy Congresses.; Industrial policy Congresses; Competition Government policy Congresses.; Corporations Taxation Law and legislation Congresses.; Industrial laws and legislation Congresses.
Abstract: Based on a May 1995 workshop held at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and sponsored by the Faculty of Law with the law firms of Borden & Elliot and Stikeman, Elliot, and the Canadian Bar Association-National Competition Law Section.
Contents: Pt. I. Competition as cooperation: policy perspective -- 1. High-technology industrial policy in Canada: the future of an illusion or an illusion of the future / Robert Howse -- 2. The role of cooperative industrial policy in Canada and Ontario / David A. Wolfe -- 3. Commentary / Michael J. Trebilcock -- Pt. II. Tax policy and technology development -- 4. Tax incentives and comparative advantage / Paul Halpern and Jack Mintz -- 5. Evaluating R&D income tax incentives: some lessons from the Australian experience / Gordon J. Lenjosek -- Pt. III. Bank financing of technology development: lending to small to mid-sized enterprises -- 6. The banks and innovative enterprise: opportunities and constraints / Jeffrey G. Macintosh -- 7. The role of banks in the financing of knowledge-based SMEs / Paul A. Toriel -- 8. Commentary / Larry Wynant -- Pt. IV. Competition as cooperation: law and economics perspective of cooperative industrial policy -- 9. Competition policy and cooperative innovation / Donald G. McFetridge -- 10. Competition as cooperation: SEMATECH, Inc. and the case for competitive industrial policy / Richard J. Braudo -- 11. Commentary / Derek Ireland.