Industry committee I have two IRAP ITAs in my office. I lease them office space, and it makes perfect sense for them to be in my office, because they bring companies into talk to them and they also introduce them to TRLabs as well. I know they are oversubscribed.
May 27th, 2008Committee meeting
Len Dacombe
Industry committee In TRLabs, for example, our charter-member industry sponsors are buying into the partnership and gaining royalty-free access to all intellectual property that we generate on all of our research programs from all of our provinces. The smaller companies, which don't pay as much to
May 27th, 2008Committee meeting
Len Dacombe
Industry committee I can speak on behalf of the industry sponsors I represent. It's a very unanimous chant that they are having a difficult time in getting qualified people. One of our outputs is high-quality people--HQP, as we call it--and we work very hard with the university to get the best stud
May 27th, 2008Committee meeting
Len Dacombe
Industry committee As Dr. Smith has said, it's communication, and what he's really referring to here, I believe--and I don't want to put words in his mouth, but it's a community. In our experience, we are a community. We are a community of industry members and government representatives, including
May 27th, 2008Committee meeting
Len Dacombe
Industry committee In some cases. The health care sector, for example, is a very, very complex legacy environment, so for a small and medium-sized enterprise to come in and ask if their product will fit with these five different databases and these five different applications, software elements the
May 27th, 2008Committee meeting
Len Dacombe
Industry committee I must apologize. I had a problem with the innovation for the first little part. But to answer your second part, at TRLabs, for example, we have a very wide array of industry-sponsoring organizations participating with us. We leverage the expertise of the universities we partn
May 27th, 2008Committee meeting
Len Dacombe
Industry committee I can speak to some of that. WD provides the funds from the federal government for TRLabs, so we are very pleased to be working with WD, and that's a key thing. Can they do more? Probably. Can everybody do more? Probably. This comment is not related to the venture capital comm
May 27th, 2008Committee meeting
Len Dacombe
Industry committee Thank you for the privilege of addressing you this afternoon. I would just like to clarify that I am not speaking on behalf of the University of Manitoba, although they are a valued partner in our organization. I am speaking on behalf of TRLabs. I wish I had more than five minu
May 27th, 2008Committee meeting
Len Dacombe