Industry committee  Well, I think we have very interesting small companies in the field of biomedical devices. Again, it's about the ecosystem. Some of those small companies come out of universities, and the question is how to help them transition from a spin-off from a university into an establishe

Industry committee  When I think about nanotechnology, disruptive technologies come from the integration of technologies, so now it's not only about having something that's purely electrical engineering, but it's also biology, physics, chemistry, and engineering all coming together. That technology

Industry committee  I'd like to use the Nortel example. Nortel, as time went on, had different mechanisms to support training of highly qualified personnel. They had institutes in different universities, and they came to know certain departments. They came to know the graduate students. They hired

Industry committee  We work not only with the energy sector as it exists now, but also in thinking about other sources of alternative energy. It goes hand in hand with things that take a long time to develop, which may be there as alternatives co-existing with the energy sources we now have. There

Industry committee  There is indeed a lot of work that's being done in the oil and gas area at the University of Alberta and at NINT as well. One of the advantages of nanotechnology is that the materials at that scale offer new properties. That's because you have more and more access to surface ar

Industry committee  That's correct. You have access to coatings, for example, in pipelines or anything else, and also to environmental sensors that can be distributed and can report back information as to whether there is a leak, for example, in a particular remote area.

Industry committee  Good morning, and thank you for the invitation to testify as a witness. My name is Marie D'Iorio, and I'm the executive director of the National Institute for Nanotechnology, NINT for short, based in Edmonton. It is a partnership between the National Research Council and the Uni