Plenty of dreamers, not enough doers: Canada's entrepreneur shortage and how it might be fixed
A new report from the Business Development Bank of Canada says an “alarming decline” in the number of Canadian entrepreneurs could hurt economic growth and slow innovation. It estimates the country has 100,000 fewer entrepreneurs today than it had in 2000.
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![James Lynn, the founder of Kalū, an independent pet food-maker in Montreal, at work with his dog Sunshine. Lynn is one of an increasingly small number of Canadian getting into entrepreneurship. A man with short blond hair and blue eyes sits on metal staircase in a basement warehouse space with his Golden Retriever.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7002279.1697756539!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/james-lynn.jpeg)
A new report from the Business Development Bank of Canada says an “alarming decline” in the number of Canadian entrepreneurs could hurt economic growth and slow innovation. It estimates the country has 100,000 fewer entrepreneurs today than it had in 2000.