Industry committee  Thank you, Kevin. I fully agree with what my colleagues have said previously. The challenge of BERD is an interesting one because it's something that's been on our radar for many years. What will it take? It is partly a business culture challenge and partly a capacity challeng

Industry committee  My experience is, yes, we're seeing the cycle shortening. The shortening of the cycle may well be driven by the technologies, for example, moving from clay models to being able to do digital CAD, sometimes in just hours. Also, from our deeper understanding of global markets and

Industry committee  Okay. From my perspective there's no question that we have to draw on the existing capabilities. In my view, you're asking not so much a technology question as a policy question, and I'm not really qualified to respond to that. But from the perspective that there are technologi

Industry committee  I'll give maybe a different perspective. In the information I handed out there was a deck and there was a quadrant diagram with a bunch of circles on it. I'm not going to go through that, but I will just say that the horizontal axis in this, which really is trying to describe how

Industry committee  The genomics era allows us to understand the machinery that is responsible for our health, our welfare, and our well-being. The initial views of personalized medicine are that, because we are mostly genetically the same but there are small differences, it's those small differen

Industry committee  I want to refer to some of the remarks from Dr. Hewitt because he said at the end of his comments that in a way technologies are agnostic. We develop a technology almost always because we see at least an opportunity for some low-hanging fruit. We don't always see at the time whe

Industry committee  Yes. It is in fact.

Industry committee  I need to go back to the challenge of recognizing that it's not a disruption, in my view anyway, until it's in the marketplace. I think it's okay to ask how do we understand the potential to either create a new market, or to displace technologies that are in an existing market. N

Industry committee  From my perspective, Canada actually produces, I think, a disproportionate amount of the world's knowledge. We have some of the best universities in the world. I think if you look at the report from the Council of Canadian Academies that talks about where Canada excels, we should

Industry committee  You know what? It would make all of our lives so much easier if there were an easy answer to that question.

Industry committee  One example is, in fact, the digital economy strategy, which really has an innovation component, a content component, and a skills component, where it's recognized from the beginning that if we really want to capitalize on the advent of new big data and analytics applications we

Industry committee  What I can say is what I know about medical isotopes isn't very deep. NRC participated, for example, in some of the projects to find new non-nuclear sources of technetium-99. We just happened to have some in-house expertise that allowed us to collaborate with Canadian Light Sou

Industry committee  It's really hard for me to comment on that. I certainly don't have the expertise. I would really prefer to refer you to my colleagues at NRCan, who are really the ones who are thinking about this on a day-to-day basis.

Industry committee  In fact, NRC was the site of generating the first sustained nuclear reaction, and the work we did led to the initial creation of AECL. We also pioneered work many years ago to demonstrate the creation of isotopes, which led to the creation of another company, Eldorado Nuclear, w

Industry committee  To be honest with you, that goes a little bit beyond my specific knowledge. What I do know is that, as I said, the first sustained nuclear reaction was demonstrated by NRC, which actually led to the innovations that eventually became nuclear-powered reactors.