One of the most important areas is in the area of innovation. We have worked with our partners and with our universities to look at ways of adding value.
In the resource industry we have seen a lot of collaboration and a lot of working together to try to add that value. It's about transformation even in our research sectors, and how we get the most out of those resource sectors.
Definitely through innovation through the Atlantic innovation fund we can help small businesses establish and grow their businesses. We can help them with skills development through strategic management initiatives. We can help bring the right person at the right time in the management area to help them elaborate on their plans. We take companies to market. We spend about $15 million on missions trying to expose these companies to the whole global marketplace, which eventually will make them much more competitive.
We can have programs that go from start to exporting, innovation, and that whole virtuous circle that we find. When companies innovate, they export. When they export, they compete. It's about intervening at all different times and at the appropriate times when it comes to helping businesses, but also in collaboration with our research institutes. We have a—