Illustrated guide to Inuit entrepreneurship
2023 – 2024
The project is being carried out in collaboration with the Nunavik Investment Corporation. The aim is to create tools to support entrepreneurship in Nunavik.
In a co-construction approach with local players, the IPEA Study Centre will put forward its expertise in Indigenous entrepreneurial accompaniment to develop tools adapted to the Inuit of Nunavik, highlighting their culture and reality. In particular, the tools will use art as a means of communication.
This project is funded by the Société du Plan Nord.
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Decision-making tool: Nunavik Business Association or Nunavik Chamber of Commerce?
2023 – 2025
In partnership with Makivvik Corporation, we are collecting and analyzing current, specific and contextualized information and issues that are unique to Nunavik. This research collaboration aims to gain a better understanding of Nunavik’s business ecosystem, and to establish a structure that will enhance and support local businesses.
More specifically, two types of organization have been identified by various socio-economic players in Nunavik as potential organizations: a business association or a chamber of commerce.
This project is funded by the Société du Plan Nord.
Economic Development Officers’ Capacity development for Nunavik women’s entrepreneurship.
2024 – 2025
The collaboration between the IPEA Study Centre and the Nunavik Investment Corporation (NIC) aims to create a favourable environment where women from the Nunavik region will have access to support and tools adapted to their specific needs to develop their entrepreneurial projects, thus supporting their fundamental contribution to their communities’ economic growth and development.
The main objective of the project is the co-creation of coaching tools that NIC economic development officers will be able to make their own and use during workshops and mentoring sessions dedicated to women entrepreneurs in Nunavik.
Indigenous women’s entrepreneurship
2024 – 2025
To this day, very few studies have been conducted on Indigenous women’s entrepreneurship in Quebec. Yet Indigenous women entrepreneurs represent a significant part of the Canadian and Quebec economies, and their contribution is attracting increasing interest from academia, government and state organizations.
This project will be divided into two parts. The first will provide an assessment of support programs for Indigenous women’s entrepreneurship in Canada and other Commonwealth countries, in order to identify innovative practices that have proven effective. The aim is to create a repertoire of practices that could be imported and adapted to Quebec as part of a support program for Indigenous women entrepreneurs.
The second component will consist of qualitative research on First Nations women entrepreneurs in Quebec and their role in their communities’ economic development and in passing on traditional values through their businesses.
This research project is funded by the FNQLEDC and carried out in collaboration with the Chaire de leadership en enseignement en foresterie autochtone (CLE en foresterie autochtone) at Université Laval.
Documentary series on the contribution of the Indigenous economy to Quebec’s economy
2024 – 2026
The “Documentary series on the contribution of the Indigenous economy to Quebec’s economy” project aims to create a new intercultural and multidisciplinary research partnership for the co-construction, mobilization and dissemination of knowledge on the contribution of Indigenous economy to Quebec’s economy.
The main objectives of the project are, firstly, to consolidate and advance knowledge on the contribution of indigenous economy to Quebec’s economy. Secondly, we wish to explore, co-construct and structure research using a documentary format as a methodology, with the aim of achieving intercultural and multidisciplinary epistemic justice.
The documentary series is a collaboration between three co-researchers: Émilie Fortin-Lefebvre as principal investigator, and co-researchers Rémi Morin-Chassé from UQAC and Laurie Guimond from UQAM. It also includes three aboriginal partners involved in economic development and relations with indigenous populations: the Ashukan Institute, FNQLEDC and SNCATEA, and two research centers: CRISES and INQ.