I wish I could have the money to do such a study. Unfortunately, I don't. I know that one of my colleagues has done it, and it's just amazing.
I'll give you one example. Earlier, we were talking about jobs created in Calgary. There's a college in Shawinagan, Cégep de Shawinigan . It's very tiny. There are 1,100 students there. They have amazing research capacity. They have 45 full-time researchers there, and they were able to attract a company that has created 300 jobs because of the type of applied research they were doing. This gives you an idea of the economic impact that those can have.
I have other stories of companies that were going to close because their product was not in demand anymore or it was not popular. They approached the college. Guess what? Now they are producing a lot of products that are on the market, and not only in Canada but around the world.