We are progressing but other people are doing it much faster than us. It's not because we are going in reverse gear; we are also going forward.
The thing we could do better is to not hold the intellectual property and ideas too close to our chest for a long period of time. In the 1920s it worked because it took other people a long time to understand ideas but nowadays it's instantaneous. What needs to be done is like what happened in Android and with the Internet; you open it to Canadian citizens. Anybody who takes it up uses intellectual property that came from a Canadian institution and creates jobs; they should be given incentives. There has to be a centre of excellence created for various silos. For example, smart cars are a clear centre of excellence. They should hold portfolio patents from all institutions, and they should be opening it up to a select group of people to go forward and build companies.