Industry committee  That's not to mention as well that CFI, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, does have a college infrastructure program. They should be talking to them for sure.

Industry committee  Context is really important.

Industry committee  Bert spoke to this very well, and the fact is that not everything needs to be conceived as product development technology transfer. Working together produces amazing results sometimes when there's no obvious IP. I've seen it more than once. I've seen a $25,000 project at a major

Industry committee  My understanding was that you were also asking about where the money goes, in terms of where the investments go. Is that correct?

Industry committee  In our estimation, across the councils it's fairly standard. Most of the money, 70%, goes to people. The researchers are paid through the university, but they hire students and research assistants, so these are big investments in communities. In London, Ontario, the $100 million

Industry committee  As I was saying in my earlier comments, first of all, there's a huge compulsion within the academic community to publish. That's part and parcel of the requirement for any research funding that goes on anywhere across the country, regardless of the discipline, to get that informa

Industry committee  Let's put it this way. If the investigator ultimately develops the IP and is under an obligation to report it to the university, that's true whether the investigator owns the IP or the university owns the IP. If you don't want to report that, even though nominally the university

Industry committee  There are probably more.

Industry committee  It's worse than that.

Industry committee  Let's go right back to the notion of disclosures. I was the same: when I started out at Western back in 2002, I said we had to get our disclosure rate up. The fact is, you can do that. You can walk around, talk to everybody, get them to disclose, and put everything on the table.

Industry committee  I'm sorry, but just to clarify, if you're talking about federal investments in research per se, which is in the order of $3 billion, or maybe more if you include the investments in infrastructure through CFI, then yes, that's the lion's share. Then also count provincial investmen

Industry committee  If one takes the narrow view that a dollar invested has to produce a dollar in patentable IP or commercializable products, I don't think that's going to work. The overall question is, is our investment in fundamental science paying off in broad terms with respect to creating econ

Industry committee  That's right. It certainly could be implemented through discussion with the main groups representing the post-secondary institutions, whether CIC, the U15 particularly, or Universities Canada. I think it has tremendous benefit, and would be used to the extent that it would be m

Industry committee  For sure. For the programs that do provide funding for that, or to the extent of the funding provided by the Tri-Council to support knowledge transfer, it could certainly be stipulated that the preference or the requirement is to use templates or to use materials that are widely

Industry committee  Yes. I would agree.