Women’s Enterprise Centres

  • Note to ICN Readers and Viewers

    Note to ICN Readers and Viewers

    We have been building the Aboriginal Entrepreneurship online community at the Idea Connector Network since 2011. Over the years you’ve provided us feedback on your experience with your online community and we’ve responded by tweaking the delivery of content. We also heard you say that our content should become more inspirational, better aligned to…

  • A Force to Reckon With – Women, Entrepreneurship and Risk

    A Force to Reckon With – Women, Entrepreneurship and Risk

    By Janice McDonald, and Clare Berckon Last summer, as part of our study to ascertain how women entrepreneurs look at risk, we crossed Canada asking entrepreneurs about their approach to risk in their businesses. We wanted to test the oft quoted assumption that female entrepreneurs are risk averse.  As we spoke to predominately female entrepreneurs…