Health committee  I'd say it a little differently. What they need or what they lack is experienced people who have carried these companies through that process before. In Massachusetts you might have 20 of them sitting on the bench with really big experience, so if you're starting a new company, y

Health committee  Not in the broader sense, but even in a more narrow sense without trying to change the way the world works, FedDev, the federal government funding agency in Ontario, and other federal funding agencies that provide incentives and those kinds of funding programs can be used as alte

Health committee  Education, I think, is about the only thing that's going to change the public's view. I'm involved with the Public Policy Forum, the Conference Board of Canada, and a number of other groups that are trying to hold forums to get people to understand that our health care systems ar

Health committee  Absolutely, it's that kind of ignorance, yes.

Health committee  The problems that we're describing here are the siloed nature of the health care system and its funding. Even our health care funding is a hospital and doctors funding model, as opposed to an integrated health care system model. There are many books on this that you could read th

Health committee  Interestingly enough, I think it's ignorance on the part of the public. In deference to the politicians, health care reform is often seen as kryptonite, as death to a politician. It's not because the politicians wouldn't do the right thing if they thought it was the right thing,

Health committee  It depends. We provide loans. We do get returns, but we're not seeking returns. IAF at MaRS is like a venture capital fund, but again, social capital.... In Ontario, for example, there are also the Ontario emerging technologies fund and OVCF, the Ontario venture capital fund. The

Health committee  The other way to look at it is there are technologies. You've got to be careful because for medical technologies in the cost environment we have here, doing more is not always good, right? You could come out with a new technology that allows cardiac bypass to be done that much be

Health committee  But there are solutions to that.

Health committee  We just haven't got time to talk about them, but there are solutions to that.

Health committee  I don't think I'm informed enough to comment on basic versus applied research, and the levels, and whether they're appropriate or not. Ilse, you may have a thought on that. I just know there's not enough spent on the commercialization and innovation phase. Whether there's an app

Health committee  We do much more so now, and especially as mobile technology is becoming more than.... We do much more now than we did, say, five or 10 years ago. Ten to 15 years ago there was almost none. Now people are looking more broadly to aerospace, to consumer electronics, to other places

Health committee  It is mostly, except there could be surgical techniques or things that are not products which also need to be innovated and moved into practice, but they may not be generating revenue or anything. That still is an innovation.

Health committee  We don't. Hospitals would do that themselves. Physicians would do that.

Health committee  Do you mean to get a sense of how much?