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Overview The contributions of different industrial sectors to overall Annual R&D spending in 2013 below pre-recession changes in research and development (R&D) spending in levels Canada have shifted markedly since the technology boom of In 2013, annual in-house R&D expenditures by business the late 1990s. [...] Lower R&D spending by Ontario manufacturers reflected declines in the number of manufacturing firms contributed to recent declines performing R&D and operating in the province, and coincided During the mid-2000s, the growth of in-house R&D spending with lower levels of capital spending and manufacturing output. [...] The real GDP of Quebec-based overall R&D spending by these companies at the national level manufacturing was 11.3% lower in 2013 than in 2007, as many was about 40% higher in 2013 than in 2007, and Ontario-based industries declined and the number of active businesses fell. [...] In that year, manufacturing companies In both provinces, in-house R&D spending, as a percentage accounted for about 60% of in-house R&D expenditures in of nominal output produced, declined during the recession Ontario, and manufacturing represented about 16% of the and continued to edge downward as the economy returned to province's nominal output. [...] The overall in 2013, and the sector's share of provincial R&D spending share of R&D spending by foreign-controlled firms increased from about 40% to 54%.