Obviously, jobs would be pretty much under the IRAP programs, or under the spinoffs we create, resulting from our own research programs. A few weeks ago, we were invited to speak about IP management. Every year we license about 100 of our technologies to various licensing processes, or we create spinoff activities. All together, if we take the last five or six years, with the spinoffs that were created by NRC, we were able to gather about half a billion dollars of capital, half a billion dollars of sales from those companies, and I would say 700 or 800 jobs directly related to our spinoffs. If we add that to those coming out of the new funding debt we received from the IRAP programs, you can add about the number of jobs created. That would obviously be direct jobs. In our spinoffs, these are direct jobs that we can count. There should be some kind of multiplier or factor for indirect jobs.
On December 2nd, 2009. See this statement in context.