Industry committee  If I could make a comment on this, I think Dr. Smith's institute has done a very good job of taking technologies to market, and it has very concrete examples of how that's happened. But I would go into another perspective, and this goes back to Henry Friesen's remarks to you this

Industry committee  I'm with the hospital, so from my side of it, I know very well the saga of a multinational, a General Electric or a Siemens, selling you an MRI versus a small local company called IMRIS selling you an MRI. There is an inherent adverse reaction to risk. If you buy a car from GM, y

Industry committee  We are, for the institute, in the middle of recruiting a poster boy. Great institutes always have someone like a Dr. Plummer at the heart of them. We're looking at a team that we're trying to snag in the neurosciences. We would put a package together to bring them, probably from

Industry committee  I mentioned before that access to capital is a huge issue. Dr. Smith's comment about potential government guarantees for some portion of the risk that might reduce the risk adversity, I think is a good suggestion. A second comment I would make is that whenever the federal govern

Industry committee  Access to capital is the number one issue in this country for venture capital spinoffs. It's not confined to small places, but it's most seen in small places. If we had a cure for cancer on a lab bench in this city today, there would be virtually no place to go, storefront-wise,

Industry committee  Are you asking me?

Industry committee  Hello, everyone. My title is chief innovation officer of the Winnipeg Health Authority. I'm based at the Health Sciences Centre, our community's largest hospital. You folks just visited St. Boniface Hospital this morning. I spent 17 years of my life in Ray's riding, working as