Thank you very much.
I think sometimes we overstate what you've termed the “valley of death”. I think we have many examples of where we are successfully moving new ideas and commercialization policy out into use within our economy and our other sectors.
There are places where there could be more support. Dr. Ghali mentioned a few of them. There are places where we need to have more ability to work longitudinally with companies in Canada to be able to move ideas into use. For our more entrepreneurial mind, it's spinoff individuals. There are significant challenges, as I mentioned, in moving research results from the lab into use by showing a capability of doing it at a pilot scale.
There are also challenges for those companies, particularly in the current climate, for raising their initial capital. The more capital-intensive your company is going to be, the more difficult it tends to be to grow in Canada, to put in place the infrastructure to be able to get your product into a commercial form.
The final thing I would mention—