I would say that the challenge is the dichotomy between intellectual curiosity and market demand, and that we still need to make sure that we are satisfying intellectual curiosity. There are hundreds of brilliant things that have come out of our university structures, but when a business is being asked to support a research project that is not answering their immediate needs, the reluctance to spend money on that research project is quite large, so we need to think down both channels and make sure that the programs that we have designed that are supporting our post-secondary institutions do both things.
On May 10th, 2016. See this statement in context.