Certainly. Innovation is done by industry; research is done by universities. If you don't have research, you don't get innovation, but if you don't have companies doing things, you don't get things going. You need them to work together. There are lots of forms of partnerships. You want to reduce transaction costs and make it easier for the two to come together. Unrestricted data sharing and other things will assist with that. I suggest to you the MNI model in Montreal.
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