Industry committee  I'll take that one. As far as skills coming from university into our company is concerned, we try to work with our local university to give them feedback on the kind of expertise we need. Mostly for us it's around software. Software leads a big part of the world. Being good soft

Industry committee  There are really two aspects to it. The first one—

Industry committee  Well, yes.

Industry committee  That is part of my comment. Our true comment is that often the problem we find in innovation is that we're redefining something that's either not defined or that exists in physical form and that we try to make digital, and the same rules don't apply. Copyright is a big example

Industry committee  We rarely get the chance to work directly with universities. In our case, usually what will happen is.... I'll use the example of an insurance company going to a research lab within the university. They're already working with a partnership and finding algorithms to define how yo

Industry committee  We were founded at the end of 2007. The bulk of our growth has been organic, simply through references. To this day, we actually don't have a sales department. Most of our growth has been through word of mouth and through creating very good products for our customers, who then re

Industry committee  Prior to 2007 I myself had been in a different number of positions. I worked at multiple start-ups, a couple of them in the medical field and one of them in digital signage. I also spent about five years in the energy industry, working for what was known then as Cooper Power Syst

Industry committee  Mirego is essentially a service company. We work both at defining products and at making those products. We're sort of an engineering-heavy company. Out of 65 on our team, we have about 40 engineers. The rest of the team is on design and the creation of digital products. We wor

Industry committee  It's a little like what I said earlier. We need to develop the capacity to make a link between the research that is already being done in our universities and the industry, and make sure we increase this link. Activating it is already a very good thing but we also need to build t

Industry committee  Quebec companies are still privileged. Specifically, the City of Quebec offers a lot of ways for companies to develop. I couldn't tell you any more than that.

Industry committee  I'm not really the best person to answer that question.

Industry committee  The negative aspect is creating a microcosm of people who may think the same thing. If you don't take care to inject new talent or slightly change the business' direction, the risk is that everyone will see the problem the same way. Somewhere, you have to step back to be able to

Industry committee  The investment, I can see more from the Quebec side where we are based is, the investments being done in university, in specifically computer science and software, have been noted. We're seeing a big improvement in the quality and the grade of the students that are coming out. It

Industry committee  Not all Canadian businesses are conservative. There is an increasing openness to change, first because it meets a need. One effort I can applaud is the one by our partner, La Presse, which was able to reinvent how the newspaper is made. There was obviously a business need there.

Industry committee  Implementing new technologies in part involves change management. The entire organization must be a stakeholder in this change. It often affects more than one individual because it touches an entire group of workers. The difficulty often lies in human resources management rather