That study looked at patents filed 1993-94. I think since that time there's been a much increased awareness on the part of the Canadian research community of the importance of the potential commercial value of the knowledge that is being generated in universities. Not given to you today, but in our data, and we would be happy to send it to you, is evidence of the number of patents and spinoffs that are being created as a result of the research being done in the universities. I think there's an increased awareness of the importance of it.
I would also point out that Canadian industry needs access, of course, not only to the research done in Canada--Canada produces about 4% of the world's knowledge, and considering we're half of one per cent of the world's population, that's not bad--but also to the other 96% of knowledge being produced around the world. If there is one thing that's global, it is research and knowledge. It's extremely important that we have the highly qualified personnel in the private sector, because they are the surveillance and intelligence systems for the private sector, who are scanning not just the 4% of knowledge produced in Canada, but the entire 100%.
If we had done a similar study in Canada, the percentages would have been the same, but I expect a lot of the scientific knowledge that went into the patents filed by the Canadian industrial sector would have been to the research done in other countries, so there is a free exchange that benefits everyone.