Ted mentioned open access. The key thing in getting technology out is that people have to know that there are 20,000 companies that do research in a particular year. We've talked about the 10,000 faculty we support. There are more who SSHRC supports. So it's a many-to-many problem. I have to find the right person to work with, so publications are going to be good, and open access is going to be good, because I can find a person through a web search. If you can find the person and you're physically in the same country, you have a better chance to partner with them. A person in China may find the publication, but it's not enough for them to actually capitalize on a commercialized opportunity. The more we can enable the interactions, the meeting events that we support, the more all of those things speed up the early finding of the other. Once you can work together, you're going to work better on a problem of relevance and produce something.
On June 20th, 2017. See this statement in context.