Industry committee  I would say that's always a topic of conversation.

Industry committee  It's very definitely on the radar. Especially for new researchers, for people just starting out, a discovery grant is how you get started. So the fact that those numbers have been declining is definitely noticeable. I will say that I work in the industry liaison office, so we v

Industry committee  We definitely do outreach to our researchers—we being the industry liaison and innovation office. We do outreach to our researchers, making sure they're aware of what programs are available. We do matchmaking with industry partners if there's somebody in the same field. Oftenti

Industry committee  Sure. For various industries and in various departments at our university, we have successfully commercialized technology. A researcher named Mark Stradiotto has had much recent success in the chemistry field. His product is now being sold and is commercially available. As well,

Industry committee  There is a system in Canada already called the small entity system, whereby we pay lower fees for universities and small companies, although there again it's kind of risky sometimes for small companies to take advantage of that. The U.S. just introduced something called micro ent

Industry committee  There are no legal restrictions for doing so.

Industry committee  I think there's actually a good and growing climate of innovation. I think there are more and more small and medium-sized enterprises, especially, who are really doing some very interesting and innovative things, such as Ocean Nutrition, as you mentioned, who just had a very succ

Industry committee  With regard to what can be done to spur more innovation, the Atlantic Innovation Fund is a great program for doing so. It is quite a large program, so you really have to undertake a big project for doing so. Otherwise, some of the other national programs that I've mentioned, su

Industry committee  I absolutely think that is a focus. I would say that there have been some great steps taken over the last couple of years introducing these collaborative granting projects. Anything along those lines is a benefit, anything that, first of all, can raise awareness that collaboratio

Industry committee  As far as standardization, there is obviously a wide range of policies across Canada. At Dalhousie University, the researchers own their own intellectual property. That can be altered by contract, if they choose to contract with a company that wishes to deal directly with the uni

Industry committee  Yes. It's under the Bayh-Dole Act. There is some legal uncertainty as to what that means right now after a case at the Supreme Court last year. Currently the understanding is that it means the researchers have to disclose their intellectual property to the university and the univ

Industry committee  I don't know enough to comment on that. I do know that most universities have some sort of revenue sharing with their researchers in the U.S.

Industry committee  I don't know about France for sure, but I understand that the U.K. system is much like ours, where you have sort of a smorgasbord of different policies.

Industry committee  Absolutely.

Industry committee  No, understood.