Spotlight on Scaling Canada’s SMEs

Sustained and significant funding in research and development has helped startups to take their ideas to commercialization, but Canada faces a number of challenges in growing and scaling its small and medium-sized enterprises into national and international competitors. 

Access to funding, talent and government support all factor into a company’s ability to scale up, and while Canada ranks third in the world for entrepreneurship, each of these areas must be addressed if Canadian companies are to excel internationally. By speaking with four self-starters who are currently scaling their organizations, this Spotlight addresses the personal and professional challenges of scaling a business, and the potential avenues for improving Canada’s entrepreneurship ecosystem writ large.