Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Côté. The NRC's responsibility is to undertake research largely of a technical nature. In the case of issues where there has been a spill and we're trying to assess the nature of the material spilled, the mechanisms that might be used for environmental remediatio

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We see two major realities confronting us in the world today. A fourfold increase in global population over the past century, from about 1.7 to 7 billion people, together with rising prosperity and the demand for heating, cooling, lighting, transportatio

Industry committee  The NRC actually was operating over the last 15 years or so very much like a university without students. That's the fundamental difference.

Industry committee  That's correct.

Industry committee  They'll be internally monitored and published.

Industry committee  The kinds of impacts that start to become important, as opposed to the outcomes that you were describing earlier, of publications and so on, are things like the jobs that are created, the increased sales in companies. It's very much the economic impact.

Industry committee  As I said in the opening remarks, it's really a socio-economic impact, so you're looking at other things as well. We're concerned about the fact that internally we have reasonably happy employees, that the customers are satisfied with what they're getting, and these kinds of thin

Industry committee  Not as a predominant thing, but it will happen. It's not a fundamental job of NRC. It's a fundamental job of academia.

Industry committee  That's why it became very academic. It gradually drifted to be quite academic, and we're drifting it back to be less so and to let the academics do the academic.

Industry committee  The collaboration has now become a value of the organization. Collaboration was actually not very high in the past, and now it's fundamental in everything we do.

Industry committee  The mechanisms that lead to collaboration are that you design what you're going to do together with the partners that should be at the table. That leads inevitably to collaboration. The historic models that have been applied were “Here's what we're going to do. Do you want to p

Industry committee  Well, I characterize it as going back to the job we're set up to do, which is what the act says.

Industry committee  I think the mandate is broad, but if you look at it, it does talk very much about industrial impact and industrial development.

Industry committee  Thank you.

Industry committee  If you go around the world, what you'll find is that there are many organizations that call themselves research and technology organizations. They have, typically, common characteristics. They have differences too, but the common characteristics are that they tend to be more outc