From my experience as a university professor for 30 years, as a global picture my recommendation is that 40% should be teaching, 40% should be research, and 20% should be administrative. With regard to that 40% on research, one has to realize that discovery grants are very small. A starting discovery grant is about $20,000 per year, and the highest is around $50,000—sometimes it goes to $70,000. You would be able to support two graduate students with this.
With collaborative research, our average project at CRIAQ is about $1 million, and the highest one is $1.8 million. With the amount of money we bring to professors for doing good research, as I was saying earlier, you have to balance it between....
You have to see that the professors there have very good science; they publish in good journals. One of them from McGill was telling me recently that he went to a conference and people from Boeing and Airbus were there. It was a plenary session and it was full, because he was talking about real industrial results from his projects. His graduate students are superb and doing very well.
I don't see a contradiction, a dichotomy between research.... Of course, you need to keep a balance between push, which means ideas that come forward from the university system, and pull. That balance, to me, would be in the range of 80 to 20, or something like this. That would be a very helpful research system.