Again, I sound like a broken record. There's not just one way of doing it. Access to venture capital is good, and the higher the risk venture capitalists are willing to take, the more they're going to look at us. But we want to de-risk our products for them, and that's where government plays a huge role. The grants have stopped funding it; it's no longer something interesting from the point of view of basic science. You just have to do the next two years of development work to de-risk it to the point where the private sector wants it, either a big company or a start-up with some investor dollars. You can't say there's just one thing that needs to be done.
On May 21st, 2013. See this statement in context.