I think it's just enough for this question.
We had some good witnesses last week, and I'd asked some questions because I was involved in a meeting at McMaster University where we were talking about building centres of commercialization. The Fraunhofer Institute in the United States was mentioned. The one particular concern they had was that for the emerging research and innovative technology that was coming from the university, the biggest gap is from that classroom to the shop floor and bridging it to commercialization. In fact, one of the witnesses said that one of the things we need to do is have an incubator to produce serial entrepreneurs, these people who are gifted at being able to understand how researchers think and yet at the same time being able to take the technology and put it on the street.
It's particularly even more of a concern with the fact that the number that was mentioned earlier...I believe it was that about 70% of our business, at least SMEs, is in the services area. For us to take this technology and capitalize on the whole value chain all the way through I think is important.
I'm just wondering if any of the witnesses have any thoughts on that. How can we encourage and maybe increase the talent pool of serial entrepreneurs so that we can capitalize more on our own homegrown research from some very world-class universities, like McMaster, which is in the riding I represent, so that we can keep all the business here, and the jobs, and of course the notoriety that goes along with both?