Research briefs, news, and event recaps related to entrepreneurship.
To explore the challenges women and minority entrepreneurs face, GATE convened a 6-week workshop series in October and November 2020 sponsored by the Government of Canada’s Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub.
We know funding is one of the biggest challenges entrepreneurs face, but how is it different for women starting their own businesses?
Is femtech an innovative and disruptive space for women’s health, or simply a buzzword?
Brookfield Institute
GATE Postdoctoral Fellow, Kim de Laat, co-authored a report offering an in-depth survey of the experiences of women founders as they scale their companies.
This policy brief discusses the state of supplier diversity in Canada, benefits of implementing it, potential barriers, and how companies and policymakers could better support it.
In our fourth Industry Partner Workshop on September 23, 2019, our researchers and partners engaged with topics such as race and gender in digital journalism, gender stereotypes and entrepreneurial financing, and de-biasing job postings.
Sarah Kaplan is quoted by the Financial Post on the Government of Canada's new Women Entrepreneurship Strategy.
Researchers discover that during venture capitalist question and answer sessions investors are more likely to ask promotion questions to men entrepreneurs and prevention questions to women entrepreneurs, impacting funding allocation.
Professor Becky Reuber notes for CTV news that when you compare the performance of similar businesses owned by men and women, there is no difference in performance.
Rachael Goodman and Sarah Kaplan write for The Mark News about why many women find more value in building social networks and confidence than economic empowerment. (This piece was also picked up by the Helsinki Times, Japan Today, The City Paper Bogota, and the Peruvian Times.)
