With regard to the Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program, the approach currently being used is to rely on existing products and to help SMEs commercialize them by putting them in touch with their first customer or, in cases where no assistance is found for them, by awarding them contracts so that their first customer is the federal government. The program is genuinely based on commercialization. However, it isn't a program based on ways of furthering innovation. Do you think it would be justified if the purpose of one of the components of that program was to encourage people to innovate?
On November 1st, 2011. See this statement in context.