- particular study of the impact of specialized equity pools that promote,
among other things, syndication, new sources of expertise, and
decentralized decision-making;
- further research into the economic and job outcomes of fund investment,
beyond those found for the Fonds de solidarité, and as compared with
other venture capital/financial institutions;
- a comprehensive, nationwide profile of individual investors, including
data concerning income and occupational backgrounds;
- a detailed review of the ways in which funds have introduced Canadian
workers and unions to investment decision-making processes;
- an empirical assessment of the real value-added for investee firms of
certain fund programs, such as economic and financial training,
participative management and other workplace innovations, social
auditing, and more co-operative employer-employee relations;
- examination of the special role occupied by the funds in leveraging
worker ownership, in part as a tool of restructuring and rescue operations
in mature industries.