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Industry committee I don't have specific statistics I can quote to you at this time. We do track companies that are ultimately exited down the road. Typically that's well downstream from us. We invest at a fairly early stage, pre-commercial. Most of the companies that would be acquired would be acq
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada
Industry committee Thank you for the question. It varies. We deal with companies, as you are aware, or projects that are in the development and demonstration phases—so completing the development and then doing a demonstration project. Depending on where in that spectrum they fall, the answer will
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada
Industry committee What I would say is that the more buttoned-down it is, and the clearer we can see that they have a freedom to operate and a market that they can attack, the more likely it is we are going to fund them, number one, and the more likely it is we'll be able to fund them in a greater
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada
Industry committee Absolutely, far and away; it's considered the gold standard.
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada
Industry committee There is huge growth in Asia in everything, so absolutely there's a massive market for clean technology. I think it was in 2010 that China surpassed the U.S. as the number one region for investment into clean technology. They are the global leaders. They are aggressive. If you lo
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada
Industry committee That's a great question.
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada
Industry committee There are a variety of things, some of which we've touched on. The one that we haven't touched on is supporting the venture industry. To the extent that there are Canadian-based venture firms that can support Canadian companies, which they typically do because they're close to ho
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada
Industry committee Yes, it's fraught with a number of issues. The principal issue is really just a matter of the risk/reward at that stage from an investment perspective and also from a customer adoption perspective. Taking the customer's perspective for a moment, the risks from deploying a tech
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada
Industry committee Absolutely. I have a couple of thoughts on that point. First, on that adoption and piloting type of scenario, I think there are ways that.... If you set up things like the CANMET lab, for example, in Alberta, which is specifically for oil sands-related technologies, it's built;
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada
Industry committee Certainly, and thanks for the question. To clarify, this view comes from our portfolio companies, the SMEs that are trying to commercialize these technologies. Of course, we work very collaboratively with universities—they are members of our consortia—and we encourage that going
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada
Industry committee Yes, that's a very good question. It's hard to answer that quickly. There's an inherent conservatism, we believe, in Canadian industry in regard to adopting technologies early—to avoid taking the risk. That's number one. Number two—and this is being addressed by the new govern
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada
Industry committee Yes, it's a dynamic that we see across Canada in a variety of technology sectors, although—and I don't have statistics on this that I can quote—certainly anecdotally what we see is that in clean technology the phenomenon is a little less pronounced, for a couple of reasons. One i
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada
Industry committee Good morning, Chair, members of the committee, and thank you for the opportunity to represent Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC, an independent, arm's-length foundation founded and funded by the Government of Canada to help commercialize innovative clean technolo
June 19th, 2012Committee meeting
David Harris Kolada