Feds must act now, or risk losing generation of entrepreneurs

Without a reliable access to informed capital at the early stages of the innovation pipeline, we risk losing a generation of entrepreneurs and their future economic and social contributions.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains and the Trudeau government are facing calls to mobilize private sector capital in support of entrepreneurs.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ISG Senator Colin Deacon, Claudio Rojas, Amanda Filipe

August 17, 2020

With the possibility of a second wave of COVID-19 on the horizon and borders restricted, federal and provincial governments have called for the establishment of domestic supply chains and doubled down on support for Canadian innovations, opening up new procurement opp...

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