Okay. I appreciate that.
I'm just wondering how.... There somehow seems to be this idea that there are these kinds of links in the chain: that you get your basic research, some of it goes to more development, and then eventually it gets commercialized. But those links may not be as connected as they often are portrayed. In Britain they often allude to this idea of calling that a sausage machine, in that you put in the meat on one side and you get your sausages out the other. But having worked in a university for a long time myself, I don't think that's necessarily how basic researchers tick.
So do you have any special ways you try to bring basic researchers more on board with liaising with industry? Are there any special kinds of programs, seminars, or things you do at Dalhousie to try to show basic researchers the value of this?