Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for attending today.
Clearly this committee is focused on finding solutions to the issues you've raised today. It was interesting that in May of this year the government representatives told us that Canada is the place of second filing; we're not the primary filing point, and for many reasons. We've now met with a number of different universities. I presume you've read their testimony. We've talked to them about the different models they employ.
Ms. Mazurkewich, if I could start with you, I tried to keep up to your solutions, but they were hard to.... I'm going to have to read tomorrow's Hansard to make sure I have them all.
I agree with all of you on finding some sort of standard model, because I found the universities' solutions so varied. I think this is where we can play an important role, as government, to find solutions that are more standardized, more productive, more likely to result in commercialization, which is what we want to achieve.
I wonder, Ms. Mazurkewich, if you could address this aspect. In a couple of your recommendations you talked about incenting IP-friendly universities. It sounded to me as if lots were IP-friendly, but can you address the model of who owns the IP, who shares in the cost, where the money comes from, etc., a little further? Then maybe we'll go over to Mr. Stajcer and then back over to you folks.