Industry committee  I'll take that. You know what? I have a PhD and I'm proud of it, but some of that does go on. The reason I'm not in therapy over it is that my colleagues here know that when we do work together, BCIT has a contribution to make. I'm not sure the external system encourages that

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  At BCIT we have a very inventor-friendly IP policy. There's one distinction--I'm not even sure my colleagues know this about our policy--and it's a lot about value. Since we don't have as many resources as some other institutions, what we do is make sure, before we start to foste

Industry committee  It's much less than that.

Industry committee  Yes. It's actually a fact. I mean, even with the CFIs, or you can go to any of them.... First of all, colleges aren't eligible for a number of the tri-councils. BCIT has worked very hard--we are--but then we don't perform well; and here's how I'd put it in a nutshell. Although

Industry committee  Right.

Industry committee  Well, for our work it's really simple. Here's what we do. We qualify our private clients, even if they're an entrepreneur from a garage or they're a bigger company. We look at four simple things. We see if they have management experience. We see if they have money--and hopefully

Industry committee  Sure: just make us the finishing school for them.

Industry committee  No, I'm just kidding. The universities are great at pushing the knowledge out, and we belong right in there--that's actually who our clients are--before it gets ready for the market, and before the venture capitalists get ready. We have a role to play right there. We've done th

Industry committee  I just wanted to say--I only had five minutes--that BCIT collaborates with university professors and researchers fairly often. It's interesting when that happens, because as I've tried to explain to the committee, we're kind of like the infantrymen and women. We want to be in the

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairperson, and thank you to the committee for allowing BCIT this opportunity. BCIT is a polytechnic in the post-secondary system. We have a 44-year history of providing career-ready graduates. Approximately 50,000 students come through our doors each year. Equ