I think the innovation zone in quantum sciences and technological applications that has just been announced in Sherbrooke is a good example. It is based on research excellence and local expertise, quantum Sherbrooke in this case, and on investments. These will help students start up their companies and will also encourage companies from outside to come to the Sherbrooke region. The idea is that it will become a much more natural route for our students. Of course, things were extremely difficult for the first student who created an innovative company in Sherbrooke, but they were a little less difficult for the second.
In this ecosystem, we need an assembly of talent to move from quantum science to quantum technology. As well, we have to generate a lot of attraction at the international level. People have to have the feeling that Sherbrooke, in this case, and Canada, more generally, offer them a multitude of possibilities. People have to think that if it should happen not to work out—because young buds are sometimes born and then die—at least three other opportunities are offered to them, because a multitude of other things are going on in that region.
These investments are therefore crucial.