A lot of businesses are taking advantage of them, but they aren't all doing it.
There are too many programs. At last count in Canada, there were about 470 programs to help Canadians be more innovative, of which about 50 were federal programs. The poor businessmen or business women are just bewildered by the complexity of all of these programs. It does not make sense. All of that information about companies and their innovations and their need for commercialization should be centralized—like the great job PayPal is doing in coordinating all of the financial information—such that an application to one program may be of value for other programs as well.