Trunk view with template doesn't fire events

I am having trouble viewing events. They just don't shoot. The view has html from a template that looks like this:

<script type="text/template" id="intro-slide-template">
  <div class="slide intro" id="intro-slide">
    <a href="#" class="startpresentation" id="start-btn">
      <%= startpresentation %>
    </a>
  </div>
</script>

      

        
        
        
      

    

So far so good. The view code itself looks like this:

  /* ********* Slide View  *********  */
    window.IntroSlideView = Backbone.View.extend({           
        initialize: function(){             
            this.template = _.template($("#intro-slide-template").html());          
        },  
        render: function(){     
            $(this.el).html(this.template(this.model.toJSON()));             
        },
        events: {
            "click #start-btn": "clickHandler"
        },
        clickHandler: function() {
            console.log("IntroSlideView     ::      clickHandler");
        }           
    });

      

        
        
        
      

    

This is how I present the slide in the main application window:

/* ********* App View  *********  */
window.AppView = Backbone.View.extend({
    el: $("#content"),
    initialize: function(){
        _.bindAll(this, 'render');      

        //render 
        this.render();
    },
    render: function(){                     
        this.el.innerHTML = "";     
        var slide = this.model.get("currentSlide");
        slide.render();             
        this.el.innerHTML = slide.el.innerHTML;
    }   
});

      

        
        
        
      

    

The view gets rendered on the screen fine and it works as it should. But the click event doesn't fire.

When I inspect the slide view object, I see that it contains an el object with the desired HTML, including the button that should fire the click event.

And when I log the view events, I see that they are set:

Object
click #start-btn: "clickHandler"
__proto__: Object