Industry committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I am pleased to appear before the committee to share with you the expertise that Mirego has developed in defining and developing products for our clients. Mirego's activities are principally in the area of mobility. We create mobile applications f

Industry committee  Yes, it is. We see very good research happening on the academic side, but the biggest gap is not being able to transfer that through industry and our not being able to take research that's been done and apply it to different industries afterwards.

Industry committee  There's a kind of twofold answer to that question. Where does Canada stand insofar as disruptive technology is concerned? We work with a number of partners in different industries, such as insurance, media, and so forth. What we've been able to see is a very clear opening from th

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

Industry committee  It would be to increase funding for research and development and to promote it. Often, we have an idea, but we have to be willing to run a risk. This funding would enable businesses to agree to fund the risk. They would do it in partnership with the government.

Industry committee  Business incubators make it possible to fail fast, fail often. I'm sorry for paraphrasing. These incubators allow for that to happen. It involves trying an idea, holding meetings and discussing with other people who are also innovating to come up with promising ideas that will p

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  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  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