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From What's Inside: - R&D tax incentives play an important role in multinational companies' investment decisions. - Canada's R&D tax treatment represents one of the most generous incentive systems available internationally: R&D tax incentives help Canadian industries to maintain a competitive position with their U.S. counterparts. - Canada enjoys a substantial advantage in cost per researcher: transnational companies find their overall cost per researcher, a key measure for locating R&D investment, to be generally competitive with the same cost in the United States and other G-7 nations. - Corporations are generally satisfied with quality of technological infrastructure in Canada, including laboratories and the skills of the workforce. - Canada's cost of living and cost of doing business are considered to be relatively low.