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Dr. Victor Cui, Conrad Research Excellence Chair and an Associate Professor at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, has been awarded the SSHRC Insight Grant for his project, “The risk to Canadian intellectual property rights imposed by foreign subsidiaries.” Nicolas Roulin, a psychology professor from St. Mary’s University is the co-investigator of this project.

The SSHRC Insight Grant supports research excellence in social sciences and humanities research. Funding is available for both emerging and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years.

The work world has been permanently transformed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Zoom meetings are the new norm, even now that pandemic restrictions have been lifted. Employers are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence programs for many work tasks that humans once did.

But against this backdrop there are also labour shortages in many sectors. The unemployment-to-job vacancy ratio is at a historic low across Canada, partly because baby boomers who are close to retirement age have left the workforce, but not enough younger people are coming in behind them.

A new study reveals that inexperienced entrepreneurial women in Canada still see more success when partnering with experienced men than when partnering with experienced women or going it alone.

That is the key finding from research coming out of the University of Waterloo and Statistics Canada based on an analysis of 183,358 unique Canadian business ventures from 2006 to 2017 and the impact of co-ownership by women and men.