Northwestern business study.

• Position: Around the North - Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce, Institute for Global Entrepreneurship and Electronic Commerce to run survey - Brief Article

FedNor is funding a 5,000-firm survey of regional businesses and farms operating in northwestern Ontario, but outside of Thunder Bay and its immediate surroundings. The study, proposed by The Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce (NOACC) and conducted by the Institute for Global Entrepreneurship and Electronic Commerce at Confederation College, focuses on the use of computers and the Internet for business purposes.

The Institute carried out a similar e-commerce survey last year for member firms of the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce. The northwestern Ontario regional study employs an expanded version of the survey questionnaire that was employed in Thunder Bay so as to facilitate direct comparison of the findings of the two studies.

The institute, NOACC and FedNor all want to know what...