Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Geist, you rightly mentioned that they pride themselves as the knowledge transfer...not the technology transfer. In your opening remarks, I thought you emphasized mostly the coded knowledge or the codified knowledge, but not the tacit knowledge.
The knowledge transfer that takes place in the Israeli military is, I think, the best example of knowledge transfer where they don't hold back the patents, and they allow the military personnel to take that knowledge to the industry, allowing both the codified knowledge and the tacit knowledge to go together so it can be successful.
On what Mr. Bindra mentioned, what happens in the U.S. universities where the researchers are paid for eight months a year, for the remaining four months maybe they go to industry. There the knowledge transfer can be both codified knowledge and the tacit knowledge that goes along with the researchers to the industry.
That is a model I hope the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Science has noted and can explore further here.
Christine, welcome back. I have a question.
Is there a lack of knowledge within industry of the kinds of patents and inventions that are available in the post-secondary education institutions, such that the industry is not aware of those things that can be commercialized?