Aboriginal entrepreneurship financing in Canada

Pinto, Laura Elizabeth; Blue, Levon

doi:10.1108/jeee-10-2015-0059

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“…Emphasizing these statistics would create a strength-based approach to Indigenous entrepreneurship and gradually change the dominant narrative around problems and deficits associated with Indigenous peoples. Being self-sustaining and helping to create employment opportunities is seen as a core factor in Indigenous community empowerment and self-determination (Pinto & Blue, 2017).…”

Section: The Argument Of Economic Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Informing Canadian Innovation Policy Through a Decolonizing Lens on Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Tamtik

2020

CJHE

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While Indigenous entrepreneurship is associated with significant economic promise, Indigenous innovation continues to be invisible in Canadian policy contexts. This article examines how Indigenous entrepreneurial activities are framed in government policy, potentially leading to another wave of active exploitation of Indigenous lands, peoples, and knowledges. The article first discusses the concepts of Indigenous entrepreneurship and innovation through a decolonizing lens, drawing links to education. Then, it provides a set of rationales for why governments need to re-think and prioritize Indigenous entrepreneurship. Next, it maps the current federal government initiatives in this policy sector. Drawing from the Indigenous entrepreneurship ecosystem approach (Dell & Houkamau, 2016; Dell et al., 2017), the article argues that a more comprehensive policy perspective guiding Indigenous entrepreneurship programs should inform Canadian innovation policy. Individual voices from 13 Indigenous entrepreneurs in Manitoba point to three core issues: (a) relationships with the land and the community; (b) the relevance of (higher) education and training; and (c) the importance of cultural survival and self-determination. The article makes an argument for a systemic decolonizing change in how Indigenous innovation is approached in government policyand programs, supported by the work of higher education institutions.

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Section: The Argument Of Economic Growthmentioning

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Informing Canadian Innovation Policy Through a Decolonizing Lens on Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Tamtik

2020

CJHE

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“…While TribalCrit arose from the US context, its core insights into colonizers' use of laws to reinforce their power -yet the potential for the same legal systems to protect Indigenous rights -resonate in other locations (e.g. Chen, 2016;Pinto and Blue, 2017).…”

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Indigenous rights and the persistence of industrial capitalism: Capturing the law–ideology–power triple-helix

Horowitz

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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This article examines the power relations that unfold when Indigenous-led struggles invoke settler-colonial law toward protection from industry’s impacts. Building on Critical Race Theory, I posit a ‘triple-helical’ relationship between law, power, and ideology, which coproduce one another, mediated by nudges from individual agents. I argue that the triple-helix of Indigenous rights to protection from industry’s impacts has stagnated, due to industrial capitalism’s pushback through social regularization processes as well as its capture of formal and informal regulators and of discourses and ideologies. I conclude with a research agenda for applying the triple-helix framework to Indigenous-led engagements with industry.

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“…, 1999; Hindle and Moroz, 2010). At the same time, postcolonial scholars warn against the idea that, for Indigenous communities, entrepreneurship means the inclusion in the mainstream economy and the conformation to mainstream business expectations in order to access the resources and pursue the opportunities (Pinto and Blue, 2015, 2017). They argue that this would be a continuation of assimilation through economic colonialism.…”

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“…Before proceeding, it should be made clear that the authors do not advocate a “market-based” version of entrepreneurship among Indigenous peoples. Instead, they are with the postcolonial scholars, recognizing that Indigenous entrepreneurs should not change to be more like those who hold power in the society (Brayboy, 2005; Pinto and Blue, 2015, 2017). Their focus is on the practice of entrepreneurship by Indigenous people as part of their ongoing struggle to rebuild their “nations” using business (Anderson et al ., 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This leads to study's second research question: what are the impacts of diverse Indigenous businesses on Indigenous communities in terms of economic development? Responding to the call from the postcolonial scholars, the authors go beyond single-bottom line accounting to consider cultural and environment implications of economic activities (Scrimgeour and Iremonger, 2004; Pinto and Blue, 2017).…”

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Entrepreneurship by indigenous people in Canada and Australia: diverse modes and community implications

Yang,

Lin,

Anderson

2023

IJEBR

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PurposeEntrepreneurship by Indigenous people in Canada and Australia, while historically connected to the ancestral lands and traditional practices of Indigenous people, has been evolving and expanding in scope and nature. In this article, the authors aim to offer an integrative framework for capturing the contemporary dynamics and outcomes of entrepreneurship by Indigenous people as they pursue venture creation as part of their broader development aspirations.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on literature from place-based views of entrepreneurship and social identity theory, the authors develop a typology to account for four modes of entrepreneurship by Indigenous people along two contextual dimensions – Indigenous territory and Indigenous marker.FindingsIndigenous practicing entrepreneurship may choose to conduct business within or outside of traditional lands and demonstrate more or less indigeneity in their business activities as they marshal resources and seek opportunities. The authors identify how these diverse Indigenous businesses contribute to the economic development among Indigenous communities as part of their ongoing struggle to rebuild their “nations” using business.Originality/valueThis article contributes by differentiating sociocultural vs economic resources in noneconomic contexts to develop a theoretical typology of Indigenous entrepreneurship. By detailing the relations between Indigenous territories and Indigenous lands and between Indigenous identity and Indigenous markers, the authors contribute to a more nuanced and practical conceptualization of Indigenous entrepreneurship.

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Aboriginal entrepreneurship financing in Canada

Cited by 10 publications

References 20 publications

Informing Canadian Innovation Policy Through a Decolonizing Lens on Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Informing Canadian Innovation Policy Through a Decolonizing Lens on Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Indigenous rights and the persistence of industrial capitalism: Capturing the law–ideology–power triple-helix

Entrepreneurship by indigenous people in Canada and Australia: diverse modes and community implications

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