Certainly.
There is a statute called the Public Servants Inventions Act. Under that act we may issue a financial award to public servants who have created an invention that has been commercialized. Annually we receive an amount equal to the revenue that arises from the licensing of such innovations that is remitted to the consolidated revenue fund. In 2013-14 those revenues for Environment Canada were $79,757.
We do two things with that: we provide recognition awards for those individuals, and then, in particular, we invest in new scientific equipment that advances our mandate.