Canada Needs Gazelles If It's Going to Survive

Published April 2, 2008

Some years ago an American researcher interested in the role of entrepreneurs divided the business world into his own version of the animal kingdom.

There are the elephants, David Birch said. These are the big businesses, the corporate giants. They have much strength, but may often lack the agility to quickly adjust to change or generate big new ideas that challenge their existing activities. The best...