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Table 2
Outcome measures after matching innovators only, 2002 to 2004

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Outcome measures Did not outsource R&D Outsourced R&D P-value
percent of innovating establishments
Province first 60.9 66.2 0.1074
Canada first 49.6 54.5 0.219
North America first 32.5 40.8 0.00481
World first 16.8 24.2 0.00021
New innovation > 0 82.3 82.3 1
Percent of revenue first-to-market > 0 56.9 62.3 0.0518
Percent of revenue already-on-market > 0 43.9 55.5 <0.00011
R&D - research and development.
1. Denotes that the data points (percentage of establishments) are significantly different at the 5% level.
Note: In statistical hypothesis testing, the p-value is the probability of obtaining a result at least as extreme as a given data point, assuming the data point was the result of chance alone.
Data source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Innovation, 2005, and authors' calculations.
Table source: Statistics Canada, Innovation Analysis Bulletin, 2007, Vol. 9, no. 2, Catalogue no. 88-003-XWE.