Small business, entrepreneurship, and innovation

It is the aspiration of the Task Force and the c.bradley@competeprosper.ca Institute to have a significant influence in increasing Ontario’s and Canada’s competitiveness, productivity, and capacity for innovation. [...] All of this is true, but much of our public policy is based on mythology, on an exaggerated sense of the importance of all smaller businesses to our economy, and on the need for special support for that sector of the economy. [...] At the as the skills of an individual or team In general, businesses are classified outset of a business’s life, the owner to “perceive and create new economic based on the number of employees. [...] Instead, the marginal benefit from the last structures or conditions may stand the goal of government policy is to unit of output just matches the mar- in the way of the best allocation of prevent firms from abusing their ginal cost of production. [...] The the premium is not due to differences all firms, they employ 35.8 percent high percentage of R&D performing in worker characteristics between of workers and account for 45.7 firms that are small reflects their large and small firms, but results percent of GDP in the private sector sheer number within the economy.