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Table 1
Percentage of firms that co-operated on innovation activities for a given motive between 2002 and 2004, by industry type

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Industry type Sharing the cost of developing innovations Accessing research and development (R&D), accessing critical expertise Scaling up production processes Accessing new markets, new distribution channels
Resource-intensive 46.1 83.4 47.4 46.4
Labour-intensive 45.4 74.5 35.0 44.1
Scale-intensive 49.3 78.3 53.3 47.4
Science 53.7 87.9 49.3 44.9
Specialized 64.2 90.1 22.0 49.1
Total 49.8 81.4 42.5 45.9
Data source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Innovation, 2005.
Table source: Statistics Canada, Innovation Analysis Bulletin, 2007, Vol. 9, no. 2, Catalogue no. 88-003-XWE.