That is another excellent question.
There are various structures inside and outside Canada's universities. In Quebec, there is a commercialization company that does the work now. For eight years, I was the president and CEO of a commercialization company with precisely that mandate. First, the usefulness of the IP has to be assessed, to determine whether it should be commercialized and consider a technology transfer. In fact, we should not wait for the phone to ring, we just need to be proactive in finding partners in Quebec or Canada or internationally that will see a benefit in acquiring this IP.
So this is work that calls for a critical mass of internal competencies. The small universities with few resources are at a bit of a disadvantage. Grouping this orphan IP for commercialization purposes is certainly an important avenue. You need to be proactive and make a commercialization plan. As I said, you also need to make business decisions all throughout the commercialization process. If you think at the outset that there are a commercial avenue and a potential partner, but ultimately, when you talk to the companies, you realize there is no longer a commercial avenue, for one reason or another, you have to be able to stop the process.