I think the biggest thing we can do is give researchers and Canadian institutions Canadian customers to work for.
We know that funding in education and research is always in short supply, and sometimes you have to find a corporate partner and you don't have the luxury of deciding where that corporate partner comes from. For innovation to really have relevance, it needs customer demand. If you're innovating in a vacuum, in a dark room, there are some areas.... If you're in medical innovation, you know that if you can kill one kind of cell you're going to have something. However, for most areas of technology, and especially if you're talking about AI or anything digital, there's ultimately a customer.
By helping industry find the universities, the colleges or the start-ups, you're giving industry an ability to innovate on something that people want to buy.