Thank you for being here. I'm excited that we have the opportunity to ask you questions today.
I'll start by saying that Canada's technology access centres are an important part of the federal innovation ecosystem. In a previous study, we heard many great things about the benefits of the collaborative research and development that can take place in our colleges. In particular, there's no overhead, IP is retained entirely by the business and there are high hiring rates of the students who work on those projects and participate in the research.
My question to you is this: How is the college collaboration and innovation program supporting R and D in colleges, and how can we amplify the success that we've seen to date?