Once we've determined that a proposal is eligible under the program, we send the documents to
NRC, IRAP, the National Research Council industrial research assistance program.
Those people conduct two independent evaluations of the documents and then submit a list to us in the order in which the proposals have been scored. We then go down the list until we reach the amount allocated for that round.
We cut the budget at that round and then we take the resulting companies. So a list of 40 in the first round went to the innovation selection committee, which is the external committee, and they looked at all of the proposals under that round to confirm that the rank ordering was accurate. Where they had questions or where they had doubts, those went back to NRC IRAP for re-evaluation. Then we finalize the list based on the amount of money to be spent in each round.