Events and Competitions Organized By BDC
Small Business Week (SBW)® is an annual celebration of entrepreneurs and their contribution to Canadian society. A wide range of activities is held across the country during the third week of October. Small Business week was launched by BDC in 1979 and became a nationwide event in 1981.
The BDC Young Entrepreneur Award is a competition open to young Canadian entrepreneurs aged 18 to 35 that BDC has organized since 1988. In 2012, for the first time, a young entrepreneur was awarded a top prize of $100,000 to implement an innovation project in their business.
E-Spirit is a national Aboriginal youth business plan competition sponsored by BDC. The goal of E-Spirit is to encourage Aboriginal youth in grades 10 to 12 to learn about entrepreneurship through the use of the Internet.
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