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Digitally-enabled technology firms will assume greater significance for Canadas future economic growth and prosperity. The ability to grow digitally-enabled firms from the startup phase to globally competitive scaled up firms will be a critical part of this challenge. Among the advanced industrial economies, Canada ranks second only to the United States in terms of entrepreneurship, but most Canadian start-ups do not scale successfully. Available data indicates that less than 3 percent of Canadian service firms beyond the five-year mark qualify as high-growth. Canadian firms simply arent scaling, but why? In cooperation with its industry partner, this project seeks to address this puzzling outcome through a rigorous, empirical investigation of the obstacles to scaling-up and the policy supports needed to overcome them. The projects industry partner and the broader Canadian policy community will benefit from the projects insights into what works and what doesnt for firms looking to scale.
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Steven Denney
Delvinia
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Information and communications technologies
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