Scale-Ups
This work stream is focused on understanding how scale-ups contribute to Canada’s economic prosperity, how we can better support them, and who benefits from scale-up growth.
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Looking at the many faces behind Canada’s tech occupations, with a focus on who are Canada’s tech workers? Where do they work? And what do they earn?
This toolkit is designed to provide actionable examples of changes funders can make to reduce biases and increase capital access for equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to: Black women, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women, women of colour, trans women, gender fluid and non-binary entrepreneurs, and in turn increase economic growth and scale innovations.
Featured Reports
About the Scale-ups Work Stream
Canada’s economy is transforming at an extraordinary pace, and the ultimate toll of COVID-19 on small and medium-sized businesses remains unclear. In this context, the Scale-ups work stream at BII+E explores the role of entrepreneurship in creating new opportunities and shared prosperity through the recovery phase and beyond.
Our work is designed to encourage policymakers to challenge common assumptions about how we define entrepreneurship, the role it plays in Canada’s growing innovation ecosystem, and how we can better support entrepreneurs through policy change:
Key research questions
- What role do scale-ups play in economic growth, job creation, and innovation in Canada?
- How can we remove barriers to participation in entrepreneurship by implementing public, private and non-profit solutions?
- How can we design entrepreneurship policies that best support a prosperous, equitable, and resilient economic recovery?
Active Projects
As part of the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH), we are exploring the experiences of women entrepreneurs related to high-growth scale-ups.
Women entrepreneurs lead businesses across Canada, from small storefronts to high-growth scale-ups. The WEKH builds evidence and advances effective practices to support their businesses and growth.
Scale-Ups
Navigating Canada’s scale-up landscape
Scaling Women-Founded Firms: Exploring women entrepreneurs’ high-growth journeys
The scale-up challenge for women entrepreneurs
Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub (WEKH)
Creative Entrepreneurship in the Era of Physical Distancing
COVID-19
A Small Business Crisis: April Labour Force Survey numbers
COVID-19
COVID-19 and Joblessness in Canada: A firm perspective
Innovation Policy
The future is here, but is Canada ready to take advantage of it?
Featured Posts
Completed Projects
Deep Dive
Dec 10, 2021
The first comprehensive examination of the different ways to measure and define high-growth firms and their important contributions to the Canadian economy
Dec 10, 2021
A summary of the Into the Scale-up-verse report, exploring Canadian scale-up activity in Canada
May 20, 2021
This report offers a roadmap for practitioners and policymakers alike, identifying targeted high-impact interventions to support Canadian high-potential scale-ups
May 20, 2021
Ce rapport offre une feuille de route à l’intention des praticiens et des décideurs, qui précise les interventions ciblées à fort impact pour appuyer les entreprises en accroissement d’échelle
