What it specifically looks like is a lot of support activity to help researchers understand whether they have a commercializable idea or technology, and if they do, working with them to help decide what the best way to commercialize is. Is it to licence it out to an existing company? Is it to create a spinoff?
If it's to create a spinoff, we give a lot of support activity to help that happen. We might negotiate with the university to get, for example, access to research labs for an early-stage company so that they don't have to replicate in a company capital assets that might already exist in the university. It's things like that.
The willingness of the university to support this is high at the University of Alberta, and it results in good numbers. Lots of spinoffs happen, and the proportion of spinoffs to patents is very high as a result of this focus by the administration.