Partnerships always go down to the depth and magnitude of that partnership. People have correctly stated that partners in the private sector typically come to universities first for talent. Second, they need to be pulled in to understand what you're doing there.
While all of those folks in the nuclear industry, with their expansion, are pulling on us for more nuclear engineers or engineers we re-skilled from other areas into a nuclear program, they're also looking to us for really important advancements in technology. For instance, nuclear waste can now be dealt with so much more quickly and effectively than it has been in the past, and there's so much less waste produced. That is all due to technological advancements that have happened in Canadian universities which have gotten out into them.
Without that depth and breadth of partnership, you would never get to that level of commercialization. I really credit that depth and breadth with our ability to get these things out and into important industries like nuclear.
