I'll give you an example, and then I'll make a suggestion.
Some of the research I've been involved with recently has been looking at ways of expanding the footprint around a mineral deposit so they're easier to find. We've had consortiums of 20 companies involved. Of those 20 companies, I'm aware of two that have actively adopted the methods we've developed and shown to be successful. There has to be a willingness in the company to see the benefits of these and go ahead and do that.
In terms of what the federal government can do to facilitate that, I think you'll hear in the next session from my colleague Doug Morrison about CEMI—the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation—and there is a fundamental difference between the research we do as academics and taking that to a product that companies can use. Funding organizations like CEMI and the groups that do that is probably the better way to do that.
We also need to integrate those groups, the researchers all the way through, and again, funding research that is genuinely collaborative is a good step to moving those forward.