Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your warm welcome. Thank you, members of the committee, for your invitation to speak here today. I am very pleased to be here to present information in support of the committee’s recently launched study on the state of disruptive technologies in Cana

Industry committee  Well, thank you very much. It's a very fascinating question and one that I think had policy-makers in Canada and around the world asking similar questions. In specific response to the level of research that is being funded in universities, I think within universities it's somewh

Industry committee  I would say that you've really hit the core of the issue for Canada, nevertheless; and I think it's an issue that's been bedevilling not just this government but governments going back for several decades. Also, as I'm sure this committee can appreciate, the nature of the Canad

Industry committee  I'll take it, but no, I'm actually a Mr.

Industry committee  I'll take it, honorary.

Industry committee  Well, I think it's important for us, at least from NSERC, to.... We tend not to use that kind of terminology because in many cases it's really up to the research itself as to where it goes and the course. That being said, and maybe to build on some of the discussions we've had ea

Industry committee  I'll probably be saying very much the same thing but through a slightly different lens. I actually harken back to a couple of days ago when I read the presentation that was given by Industry Canada. They talk very much about disruptive as having a certain number of characteristic

Industry committee  Mr. Chairman, I know you can't plead the fifth amendment in a place like this, but I am going to say something that may be unpopular with some of the scientific community. I think you're asking a very interesting question. My strong feeling, and that of others, is that the disr

Industry committee  We do recognize that there is a innovation gap. In Canada, the gap is a major one, to such an extent that the government established the Jenkins panel to address the issue. Your committee rightly refers to its report in your work on the issue. In its report, the panel indicated

Industry committee  We organize project-based internships with companies. They are often short-term, but some are for a longer term. More and more, we are seeing the emergence of new organizations like Mitacs. That, specifically, is the main way that university internships with companies are funded.

Industry committee  I am not sure whether I want to monopolize this discussion or hand things over to my colleague Danial. I will let Danial make a comment and I will come back to the topic later.

Industry committee  This is one of my pet pieces. First and foremost, Canada by necessity does collaborate quite extensively internationally, at least at the academic level. It's partly because of the size of our country. It's natural recognizing that for most of that knowledge—and I think Dan made

Industry committee  I'll take a crack at that. It's certainly a tough question to answer. I think there's a cultural aspect to all of this. When you look at some of the countries that have been some of the most innovative in the world, maybe a very good example of that would have been Israel about