I'll give you a general answer and then turn to Phil to talk about the particular sectoral activity that we've got on under way.
In general it's the productivity problem and it's been this way for many years. If one of my predecessors, Kevin Lynch, were here, he would be telling you exactly the same story that I'm about to say. For many years Canada has been, as we indicated earlier, very strong in terms of its basic discovery research and very strong in terms of its highly qualified personnel, but where it falls down is under investment in terms of business R and D, in commercialization, and bringing ideas from a lab to the marketplace.
This has been the focus of many studies, but most recently the Tom Jenkins report which I referenced earlier.
The initiatives that I referenced earlier, for example the transformation of NRC to focus on a more business-led applied research approach, is part of the attempt to address this weakness that has been in Canada for many years in terms of commercialization.
The government's investments as well, in terms of $40 million on incubators where we're trying to encourage the growth of startups, which are high growth and oriented to the marketplace, is another area where for example we're trying to address this weakness in the productivity side of things in relation to business R and D and investments.
I'll let Phil talk specifically about the sectoral approaches that we take. Phil is the assistant deputy minister responsible for the sector that deals with all of the individual sectors. It's called the industry sector and that's what they work on.