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Government 'can and should pick winners' to grow scale-up companies, says federal advisor

Mark Lowey
June 9, 2021

In a recent report for the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship, Sheldon Levy, special advisor to the federal minister of small business and export promotion, argued that government should identify and support select firms with high potential to become global competitors. "There are many countries that have to pick their laneway and can’t be the best at everything all the time," Levy told Research Money.

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Organizations:	Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship, Business Development Bank of Canada, CAN Health Network, Government of British Columbia, Government of Canada, Government of Ontario, Korea Development Bank, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and Ryerson University
People:	Mary Ng and Sheldon Levy
Topics:	", "Buy Canadian, "Own the Podium" strategy, "Team Canada" approach for scale-ups, Accelerated Growth Service concierge program, accelerating Canada's high-growth companies, acquisition of scale-ups by other countries, barriers to scale-up success, Canada's big banks, Canada's procurement environment, Canadian hospitals, clean tech sector, data, developing international markets for scale-ups, financing of intangible assets, Government support for scale-ups, health care network, health care system, health companies, health organizations, integrated domestic markets, intellectual property, IP valuation, picking winners and losers, private sector, public sector, Scale Ups, startups, supply of later-stage growth capital, and supply of talent for scale-ups

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