Welcome, everybody. It's a fun-packed morning we have. This is meeting number 67 of the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology, and we are continuing our study on intellectual property and tech transfer. We have quite a few witnesses with us today.
We have Karin Hinzer, associate professor and Canada research chair in photonic—that's Star Trek, I should have known that—nanostructures and integrated devices, University of Ottawa, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
We have, from the Association of University Research Parks Canada, Laura O'Blenis. She is co-founder and managing director, all the way from New Brunswick.
We have, from Desire2Learn Incorporated, Jeremy Auger.
We have, from Polytechnics Canada, Dawn Davidson, associate vice-president, research and innovation, George Brown College.
We have, from U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities, George Dixon, vice-president, university research, University of Waterloo.
From EION Inc. we have Anand Srinivasan, technology lead.
We are going to start with Karin Hinzer.
You have seven minutes, please.