Mr. Bogdan Ciobanu at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On June 6th, 2013. See this statement in context.

June 6th, 2013 / 3:50 p.m.

Vice-President, Industrial Research Assistance Program, National Research Council Canada

Finland is probably six times smaller. There are similar programs in Chile.

I don't want to get into all those details of budgets, but they are much bigger. For example, OSEO in France has a budget that is close to one billion euros. The budget for Tekes is about half a billion euros, and Chile's is about $250 million.

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