For the most part, the companies that are coming to polytechnics already have a sense of the idea themselves and are trying to pursue it. Within each institution, there is an intake process as we're thinking about those projects, but it's really designed around whether we have the expertise and the faculty to be able to contribute. Also, is the idea connected to the curriculum so we know that students will be able to learn from it too?
It's a lot less about trying to assess whether an idea has commercial value and more about how we help a company or an entrepreneur who has come in and get them to the next stage of their own journey. They're going to retain their IP, so it's very infrequently about creating IP and much more about how we can take things to the next level and prepare a business partner for whatever they need, whether it be in process improvement or prototype development.
