Industry committee  Obviously, jobs would be pretty much under the IRAP programs, or under the spinoffs we create, resulting from our own research programs. A few weeks ago, we were invited to speak about IP management. Every year we license about 100 of our technologies to various licensing process

Industry committee  Regarding?

Industry committee  Yes. If I take, for example, the companies that NRC created over the last recent years, these companies have been able to raise about half a billion dollars in venture capital.

Industry committee  The number would be about 600 jobs that were created out of those spinoffs.

Industry committee  But the indirect jobs, I cannot count.

Industry committee  Each year we report on plans and priorities and a series of metrics that we use. We use what we call scorecard methods to measure all kinds of parameters coming out of the NRC. It is part of our report on plans and priorities, so we have many metrics that we use.

Industry committee  One thing I also mentioned in my brief remarks is that all across the country, NRC operates 15 what we call industrial partnership facilities. They are indeed incubators. We now have about 136 companies, which are all start-ups that may result from work performed at the NRC, a sp

Industry committee  The NRC is not managing this program. I can tell you what we do in the auto sector, but it's not a matter of project approvals. Industry Canada is managing these partnerships.

Industry committee  I believe there are 15 of those, but this program is not under NRC leadership. This is an Industry Canada program. I believe there are 15 commercialization centres. Is that right, Pat?

Industry committee  Yes, there were 10 in the first round and maybe 5 in the second round. I cannot tell you if we are collaborating officially with all of them because some may be located where NRC has no capacity, but for those that are located where NRC has capacity, we most likely are collaborat

Industry committee  No, I'm not.

Industry committee  The work we do at the NRC, as I mentioned before, is primarily designed to make sure the technology we are developing is indeed transferred to industry as quickly as we can. We do that in various ways. Regarding the broad problem of commercialization, obviously it involves many

Industry committee  I know that we have been involved with many universities across the country, supporting them in their requests to get commercialization centres. At the University of Saskatchewan we have an institute called the Plant Biotechnology Institute, which you may have visited. Yes, ind

Industry committee  Indeed, IRAP has 240 technological advisors in about 100 communities in Canada. Most of them are either engineers who worked in the past in industry or entrepreneurs who have sold their business and have been hired by NRC to provide advice. Naturally, in regions such as Montreal,

Industry committee  As I have indicated, we have IRAP advisors in about 100 Canadian communities. Of course, they are present not only in large urban centres but also in several regions of Quebec. I would not go as far as saying that those regions are all rural areas but I would say that we are pres