As Dr. Smith has said, it's communication, and what he's really referring to here, I believe--and I don't want to put words in his mouth, but it's a community. In our experience, we are a community. We are a community of industry members and government representatives, including small business and large business, and we help manage the IP, because IP is a pain. The management of IP is a very large pain, so we help our industry sponsors by managing the IP for them. We help them by protecting it through the patent process--that's part of the privilege of the service you get when you join TRLabs--and that helps the companies in the innovation process.
I also think, from a funding perspective--and I would agree with Dr. Smith--that we need to increase the R and D spending in this country. But I think we also have to maybe reallocate it so that more of it is going to the industry-participating programs that exist today.