Indigenous peoples1 to the “new global economy”: their participation in the wine-making industry. We first outline the objectives and assess the feasibility of Indigenous economic development. We then discuss two case studies of Indigenous peoples “First Nations” people in Canada; and a...

Indigenous peoples are increasingly developing enterprises in the form of partnerships to participate in the global economy. The pilot study investigates the Kitsaki initiative at the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, near the city of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. To improve the socioeconomic...

The current socioeconomic circumstances of the Aboriginal people in Canada are abysmal. According to the 1991 census, 42 percent of Aboriginal people received social welfare, as opposed to 8 percent of the Canadian population as a whole. In the same year unemployment among Aboriginal people...

In Canada there are numerous studies about Indigenous entrepreneurship, most descriptive with little theory development or testing. This leaves a gap in the information available to researchers, policy makers and practitioners.In this paper we describe a research program intended to address this...

This paper examines the role that Indigenous people’s rights to land and resources pay in business and economic development in Canada and elsewhere. It does this in four parts. The first provides background information about the socioeconomic circumstances of Aboriginal people in Canada, and...

A national innovation system is concerned with the full process of converting new knowledge into commercially viable results. Governments are policy-active in trying to create productive national innovation systems. This paper reviews ways of thinking about entrepreneurship as the...

There has been increasing public debate in Australia in recent years about research culture in universities and other publicly funded research agencies such as CSIRO and its impact on Australia's performance in generating economic, social and environmental benefits to the Australian community...