I'll preface this by saying this is outside my particular expertise. Our experience, at least at Mitacs, has been that the projects we're engaged in are relatively short term, so the projects tend to be somewhere like four to eight months. Often the research going on there doesn't generate enough long-term IP. Things move pretty quickly. The problem arises from the fact that the university, especially the student, wants to publish their work, often as a thesis or as a paper, so sometimes there are some conflicting timelines there. Once in a while we will have to delay a publication.
In terms of the overall future of IP in the tech-based...I suspect my colleagues, especially at Communitech, would be able to better answer that.