PICKING WINNERS: HOW GROWTH AND NATIONAL CONTEXT SHAPE SCALE-UP ENTREPRENEURS'

But the challenge of supporting the current generation of scale-ups, the group from which the next generation of large firms is likely to emerge, is not the same for all countries. [...] The paper benefited from the feedback of multiple participants in the Creating Digital pportunities project, the unk chool’s Innovation olicy ab, researchers at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and ntrepreneurship, and the staff from the Council of Canadian Innovators. [...] But the challenge of supporting the growth of the next generation of large firms and, specifically, the cohort of established, higher-growth firms from which future large firms are likely to emerge is not the same for all countries. [...] The paper is organized as follows: first, we review the policy mix literature as it applies to policy objectives and instruments, focusing on the importance of scale-ups, or high-growth firms, in addition to the need to take account of national context (country size and industrial structure) and firm actors (specifically, the entrepreneur) in understanding why firms hold the policy preferences tha. [...] 6 Given the nature of the data collection (self-reported financial information), we counted the year of the interview in 2018 as one of the three years of observation for ease of recall.