I'm going to answer in French, if you don't mind.
Clearly, one of the challenges Quebec and Canada face is connecting entrepreneurs with existing resources. There's a concentration of resources, whether in IP or elsewhere.
The real challenge right now is finding the right resources and supports. That burden falls entirely on entrepreneurs. As I explained, for a start‑up, anything that is a burden, a weight or a waste of time as far as accessing existing resources goes is a risk, a disadvantage that hinders its ability to compete with potential international competitors.
The real challenge is creating a support continuum and ensuring that, as soon as we discover companies with high growth and innovation potential, we connect them with the available support services. We can't wait until they find out about our services through a Google search or a social media ad.
Only then can we make the most of the limited resources we have and eventually build a significant body of data and knowledge on how start‑ups move from the lab to the market. That will tell us which connections give start‑ups the biggest boost throughout their life cycle. We don't have those data at the provincial or national level because we don't have any data standards to measure a company's growth.
Currently, we look at patents and sales, but for start‑ups, sales are a latent indicator because they come later, as we know. When we focus on sales and revenue, it's too late to know whether the start‑up made good progress during the three, four, five, seven or eight years of development. That's what we're seeing these days with tech companies.