I think that something we've spoken about is thinking about the totality of the existing investment in research, thinking about the colleges and polytechnics as an integrated part of the ecosystem and then trying to transition some of those review processes that very much push towards publications and prior funding. Something like the research support fund is available to the bigger institutions. That gives them the capacity to write more proposals.
It's not just a matter of the review processes themselves having a bias. It's the fact that the institutions that have the funding have more funding, and the more funding you have, the more resources you have. When we start thinking about how to better use polytechnic and college applied research, what we're talking about is reimagining the entirety of the pot, thinking about where the ecosystem can benefit from primary research, and then thinking about translating that for the market, which is actually the place where our institutions really excel.
It means throwing out the traditional sense of how you decide what is merit. Merit has largely been about previous funding and publications. Those things don't make sense in our world, and yet that is the reason these institutions are very good at the work they do.