Not just in terms of technology.
I'll give you a concrete example of this. Two and a half years ago, as head of the English program, I decided that we would go ahead in a partnership with Bravo!FACT, which is a non-profit fund to aid artists, and create short films for cellphones, for mobile platforms. It's impossible to do in the private sector because there's no business model for it, there's no financially viable model. The technology, while very well advanced in Asia and in Europe in terms of having video downloads onto phones, didn't exist here.
We went ahead with this thing because we were doing a number of things. One, we were exploring possibilities of a new technology and saying that we could seize hold of this for Canadian creation. We were creating a new creative language around this, and we were bringing some of our leading filmmakers to this platform—from Quebec right through to western Canada, from eastern Canada, everywhere—to create a whole way of thinking about this.
Third, we were saying let's explore new kinds of partnerships so that we can at least start that work, which is going to be useful in the future to everyone in terms of business models. So exploring with the telcos, exploring.... In fact, with the first experiment we did, it attracted so much attention worldwide that Sony Ericsson decided to become a partner in the second lot of production.
It wouldn't have happened, couldn't have happened any other way, but the fact is that it was the film board driving technological innovation and creation, the two together.