Business innovation and growth support: Data, 2019

The purpose of this statistical program is to contribute, in collaboration with the Treasury Board Secretariat, to the improvement of performance and impact assessments for federal business innovation and growth support (BIGS) programs.

The initiative focused on government activities that support business innovation and growth, such as funding, advisory services to enterprises, industry-facing research and development, support provided directly or in partnership, and support for technology development (commercialization) and exports. Fundamental science, tax expenditures, provincial and territorial programs, and Government of Canada Crown corporations were not included in the scope of this initiative. Statistics Canada maintains the Linkable File Environment (LFE), which facilitates the creation of datasets that pertain to individual Canadian businesses (microdata). Linkable datasets include, in particular, the Business Register, the corporate tax and payroll dataset, the export dataset, and a broad range of business surveys. Administrative data on program recipients were linked to Statistics Canada's LFE, and the present dataset (BIGS) is now part of the LFE and is available for analysis and research.