Things take time, but with patience and sticktoitiveness, often you are rewarded. Another of those days has arrived as the C.D. Howe Institute has discovered what we’ve been preaching for years: the Business Development...
Does Canada have a start-up culture? Should governments be in the business of creating an environment of innovation and risk-taking? These were questions I was glad to see tackled by my morning newspaper over...
Once a year, The World Bank tackles the issue of the ease of “doing business” in various countries across the globe. Canada ranked #3 for “Starting a Business” in 2012, behind New Zealand and...
They were everywhere up until just a few weeks ago, and then poof. It was gone. I’m thinking of the airport and television ad campaign of the Business Development Bank of Canada. It was...
Is Don Draper on the file? I’m sure that you’ve noticed already, but our friends at the Business Development Bank of Canada have been spending big sums on TV and airport advertising of late....
The Senate of Canada’s Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce (“BTC”) report on the Business Development Bank of Canada’s 10 Year Statutory Review even touched on the BDC Subordinated debt group: “This type...
Given that it’s Winter and all in our Nation’s Capital, it may not surprise you to learn than the Business Development Bank of Canada did a masterful job snowing the Senate of Canada’s Standing...
There “Bruce” goes again. There may be times when you think I’m a bit tough on the Business Development Bank of Canada. I see the role as simply one of shining a light on...
Clear as the nose on your face. That has to be one of the true joys of a management consulting assignment from time to time. The answer is obvious from the moment you arrive...
Is the venture model “broken”? Do venture returns really “suck”? Is there a “new way” to grow innovation companies? Can public servants do a better job of picking winners vs. losers than private sector...
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