One of the themes I touched on was harmonization or fragmentation of policies.
One of the barriers to post-secondary commercialization is that we don't have a harmonized approach to managing the intellectual property arising from publicly funded research. Every institution handles this in a very different way. They all have different models of licensing. All of this contributes to friction in the early stage, the phase of the commercialization process when we're missing this risk-tolerant funding.
That's the core of one of the recommendations that I made, which is to harmonize the approach and to have granting agencies provide active guidance on how universities should be managing the intellectual property arising from the research that they're funding.
