Industry committee  I assume I wouldn't have two seconds to touch the S and T strategy question.

Industry committee  One of the most important things that came out of that is the fact that we're focusing on four priority areas where we think we are or can be world leaders. That's important in a global environment where you have to pick your areas of competitive advantage. On some of the questio

Industry committee  I think you raise a good point. One of the challenges in defining strategies and policies to deal with some of these challenges is having the appropriate data to understand what's really happening, not just in manufacturing but also in the services sector--to understand where the

Industry committee  From IBM's perspective, we have a team of corporate community relations that focus specifically on outreach. We focus a lot of our effort on the K-to-12 space for a lot of the reasons we've discussed today, in that there's a real need to help with education and to make sure that

Industry committee  Thank you. That was a good question, because the answer I was going to give to your first question was that it's not just government. There's a collaborative need here. There is a need to work together on this issue. There are three areas I will point to from our perspective, a

Industry committee  Thank you. Just to put the numbers on this, in terms of the past five years, Canadian university enrollment has increased from about 850,000 to over a million. During the same time period, enrollment in math and science and computer information sciences has gone down from over 4

Industry committee  Yes, I'll be very brief. I think you raised a number of excellent issues across all those questions. It's something we focus on very specifically with some of the programs we have, specifically one called EXCITE, which focuses on 12- and 13-year-old girls to get them excited ab

Industry committee  One of Canada's strengths in general is that it has a very strong legal and policy framework. Can we improve? Yes, we can, and I think we demonstrate a willingness to do that all the time. We've invested over $3 billion in the last decade in research and development in Canada.

Industry committee  Just briefly, to add to that, I would agree with my colleagues here and just say it's very important to balance incentivizing the creator as well as being able to facilitate innovation from the creation of that knowledge. Balancing those needs is imperative, and the government pl

Industry committee  Sure, and you're talking about internal training within IBM. Yes, we place a heavy emphasis on internal training. On a global basis we invest about $350 million a year. We have moved very aggressively into Internet-based training. We focus very heavily on retraining and re-skill

Industry committee  Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to address the committee on this important topic. IBM Canada strongly supports the committee's decision to undertake a study on the Canadian services sector. Services are a very significant but often overlooked segment of our econ