I think part of it has to be creating a sense of collaboration in that community, because the options out there at the municipal, provincial, and federal level are mind-boggling.
The only other thing I would say is that in this repository of misfit toys, some are very cool. I've seen hand-held 3-D scanners, 360-degree cameras. Can you buy one? I know that the technology exists, so why doesn't it get out there?
Part of it has to do with companies. Companies quite often, I think as you mentioned, have the firm belief that working with universities or even colleges is not worth their time, that it's hard, and that they're not going to get anything out of it or that it's going to take years. In fact, in my experience, where companies have worked with universities, that hasn't been the case. They don't like to advertise that fact, because if they say they have an excellent working relationship with university X or college Y, they have just told their competitors that this is where the competitors need to be too, so quite often people don't talk about their good experiences. They talk about what doesn't work. We have to get over that as well.