For sure. For the programs that do provide funding for that, or to the extent of the funding provided by the Tri-Council to support knowledge transfer, it could certainly be stipulated that the preference or the requirement is to use templates or to use materials that are widely available in accordance with x or y.
The trick may be not so much whether the universities are willing to adopt this but whether the companies are willing to adopt this. I think this is an important aspect. I had discussions earlier on with a major automotive assembler here in Canada, and I asked why it takes so long to get agreements. The response was that it wasn't so much the template but that they have lawyers and we have lawyers, so it takes a while.
Companies also aren't necessarily appreciative of the templates that you may bring to the table. Industry would have to be a key player, in my view, in those templates.