Business R&D Increases Through "Sticky Employees"

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Submitted by dsanden 2010–05–18 12:43:10 EDT

Theme: Innovation Using Digital Technologies
Idea Status: –13 | Total Votes: 13 | Comments: 2

2 weeks notice in Canada, and knowledge built in the mind of an R&D employee can walk out the door, and even show up in a competing firm. The USA has more employee stickiness in the form of "group health care coverage": employees are less mobile because of fears over losing medical coverage between jobs. Could this stickiness increase firm propensity to invest in R&D? If so how could Canada gain stickiness or compensate for lack of?

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dsanden — 2010–05–18 12:51:06 EDT wrote

The report also mentions comparitively smaller firm size in Canada and its negative correlation with R&D which could also relate to medical coverage/employee stickiness: in Canada you get individual medical coverage with no pre–existing condition exclusions — up till this year much harder in the USA.

mathan416 — 2010–06–07 15:40:46 EDT wrote

We need the government to invest in IT and infrastructure jobs. Why don't we have a real Silicon Valley North?

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