Industry committee  My first reaction is that we have to go for the best university research and for what companies need. Companies are strong in some markets, so if we poll their needs, obviously we'll orient our efforts there. We obviously have to leave some space for free research and good ideas

Industry committee  There are some patent offices that are very, very busy; time is the essence there. It takes time to get that. For a company, I think it's a race. You have to race quickly with your technology and protect it as you go along. It's a dynamic process.

Industry committee  I'm not surprised. Montreal, I'm sure, has some.

Industry committee  From what I know of corporate boards, I think today they're very concerned about IP issues and so on. I think in Canada now we've moved quite a bit. It's down in the culture. When you get into operations and you get into product development and all the really technical things, th

Industry committee  I think the Canadian research system in universities is performing well. I'm not sure that going on the nine months out of 12 system that is done in the States in some cases would give.... In the nine months you would work in industry, which would be good, you could find.... But

Industry committee  As was said, one of the problems is the culture. I think if you are a very product-driven company and you have to push the products out the door and that is what you do, and you make money doing it, that's fine. If you're in this culture and don't have a longer-term vision of whe

Industry committee  We have to remember that the U.S. is still a very good model. I think they have very good universities and they've developed a lot. They've slowed down, but I think they can recuperate. Germany certainly has a very solid research culture, a very strong industrial base, and they h

Industry committee  It's difficult to say. It's going to keep the big ones, but there are multiple small and medium ones.

Industry committee  From my experience as a university professor for 30 years, as a global picture my recommendation is that 40% should be teaching, 40% should be research, and 20% should be administrative. With regard to that 40% on research, one has to realize that discovery grants are very small.

Industry committee  There wouldn't be any problem with applying that kind of system if a large part of the money came from the government. We receive 75% of our funding from governments: 25% from the provincial government, and 50% from the federal government. The agreement works very well and it is

Industry committee  We think open innovation is good only in the initial stages of technology development. More and more, we are seeing that businesses are interested in pushing this further. For example, there are projects with 3M Canada where resins will be developed. So we can get results, even i

Industry committee  It is important to remember that CRIAQ is a network. For each project, there are at least two industrial partners and two research partners, in this case two universities or research centres. The project is developed within a team. On average, the projects include three or four s

Industry committee  CRIAQ was created based on an open model of innovation. Every two years, we have a research forum, and businesses are asked to present project ideas before the whole group. We had one recently in May, and 600 people attended. The project ideas are relatively simple. At the start,

Industry committee  Good morning. I am pleased to be here today. CRIAQ has been around for 10 years and carries out collaborative research projects with businesses, universities, research centres and so on. We have done over 100 of them. I have prepared a document in French and English to help you