The RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm. RAND Corporation engages in research and development (R&D) in a number of fields and industries. Policy:
The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Policy:
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international advocacy non-governmental organization and think tank. The foundation's stated mission is "improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas". View their published reports for overviews on topics like energy and AI. Policy:
Canadian Industry Statistics (CIS) analyses industry data on many economic indicators using the most recent data from Statistics Canada. CIS looks at industry trends and financial information, such as GDP, Labour Productivity, Manufacturing and Trade data.
Search by keyword or NAICS code.
All U.S. publicly-traded companies are required to file their annual documents (10-K) and quarterly documents (10-Q) into the SEC’s EDGAR database. Using the SEC site, you can search by company name or use a ticker symbol.
Provides financial bench marking data for businesses in Canadian industries by Province. This includes profit margins, proportion of companies that are profitable and a breakdown of expenses.
The First Nations Data Centre is a Knowledge Translation resource from FNIGC that provides access to published, unpublished, and record-level data from our respected national survey work. Sustainability:Ethics:Leadership:Policy:
Each year, Forbes uses data from FactSet Research systems to screen for the biggest public companies in four metrics: sales, profits, assets and market value.
Data tools, infographics, charts and blogs about health data in Canada, including diseases and disorders, drugs and vaccines, healthy living and environment, injuries and death, population groups and substance use from various Canadian government agencies.
From Statistics Canada, provides data and insights about the health of the population, determinants of health and the scope and utilization of Canada's health care resources.
Statistical reports on important topics related to small and medium businesses. This will include but is not limited to data on revenue, growth and financing.
ODESI is a data portal containing Statistics Canada surveys and much more. You can search for specific survey questions and see how Canadians responded. Policy:
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a unique forum where the governments of 37 democracies with market-based economies collaborate to develop policy standards to promote sustainable economic growth. Policy:
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is a body of thirteen provincial and territorial securities regulatory authorities. You can search for profiles of private and public companies, investment funds, investment fund groups, and other parties filing in SEDAR+.
The Open SDG Data Hub promotes the exploration, analysis, and use of authoritative SDG data sources for evidence-based decision-making and advocacy. Its goal is to enable data providers, managers and users to discover, understand, and communicate patterns and interrelationships in the wealth of SDG data and statistics that are now available. Sustainability:Ethics:Leadership:Policy:
Data on: Population, Child-bearing, Youth and elderly populations, Education, Human settlements, Literacy, Water supply and sanitation, Income and economic activity, Housing, Unemployment, and Health. Ethics:Policy:
Search Queries for "Mapping Research Output to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)" in the Scopus database. Searches could be adaptable to other research databases. Sustainability:Ethics:Leadership:Policy:
NAICS is a system for classifying businesses so that similar companies will be assigned the same NAICS code. It helps to know how industries are organized by code in order to find the closest related industry.
Review this 12 step guide to mapping a system. Mapping a system provides an opportunity to think about the context surrounding a challenge and the many interacting factors that contribute to its development – whether they are economic forces, political movements, or global trends. Sustainability:Ethics:Leadership:Policy:
Adapted from the Business Model Canvas, this guide will help you on your market research journey. Consider each section using the databases provided on this site. Market Research Canvas adapted by Amanda Wheatley, 2019.
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The Business Information Skills Certificate (BISC): Research Guide is designed to develop and progressively build business research skills for undergraduate learners.
From BDC (Business Development Bank of Canada), this marketing plan resource is a road map to help you build your marketing strategy step by step. It will give your company the best chance of success in today’s competitive marketplace.
MaRS helps Canada’s most promising founders build successful companies.
Explore advice, lessons and tips from MaRS' community of entrepreneurs and operators.
Value Proposition Canvas is a tool for marketing experts, product owners, and value creators. This method from the bestselling innovation book Value Proposition Design is applied in leading organizations and start-ups worldwide.
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
bioRxiv is a preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution. Preprints are openly available, but are not peer-reviewed.
The Purdy Crawford Chair in Aboriginal Studies at Cape Breton University has put together a collection of 59 case studies on Indigenous businesses. They are free to use for educational purposes. Leadership:
In an effort to integrate Indigenous voices into education, Indsights has created several case studies with teachers and students in mind. Youtube videos, PDFs, and teaching notes are all provided. Leadership:
Created to help Indigenous Entrepreneurs see themselves in entrepreneurship, United College's Indigenous Entrepreneurship program has begun the process of research writing their own set of Indigenous business case studies. Available via the Indigenous Entrepreneurship program at United College. Leadership: