I guess as my follow-up to that, the budget was deemed an innovation budget by the government. In advance of that someone did an analysis of the plethora of government programs that specifically claim to deal with innovation and the billions of dollars of funding available.
If governments of all political stripes have utterly failed...knowing the issue, knowing about the valley of death, as we've heard it explained. If money was the issue and if well-meaning programs were the solution, surely we would have reached it by now. I'm frustrated, because it seems like we're the hamster in the wheel here, running around trying to find a solution. Clearly the money has been there. The political will has been there but it hasn't resulted in getting companies over that gap.