Explorer l’accompagnement nécessaire à la poursuite d’un projet entrepreneurial en région éloignée

Abstract

Entrepreneurship in remote areas is viewed as a way to diversify their economies. The objective is to move away from a vision centred on resource and workforce exploitation by industries with outside interests and whose activities contribute to increase local socioeconomic inequalities. Despite some public and private support initiatives for entrepreneurs, a number of constraints limit this support. This study aims to better understand the support required to pursue an entrepreneurial project in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region. To achieve this, we use the different attributes making up the Spigel (2017) entrepreneurial ecosystem to analyze and interpret our interviews with various groups of entrepreneurs in the region. This shows, among other findings, that the support offered is not always suited to the needs of the region’s entrepreneurs and that there are attributes of the entrepreneurial ecosystem that remain to be developed.