Industry committee  Thank you very kindly. I have no further comment other than to thank the committee for its time and attention.

Industry committee  Anything that increases the availability of data and allows people to get it in real time and use it is going to be helpful.

Industry committee  That's fine. I'm not too sure I understand the question.

Industry committee  I have no comment.

Industry committee  Yes. That's what I speak to when I talk about a culture of innovation. You develop people with a solid undergraduate and graduate education in an area, but there is an opportunity for them to understand there are entrepreneurial opportunities out there. When a company when is fo

Industry committee  It's the master of business, entrepreneurship and technology program.

Industry committee  My apologies, I was ignoring you, sir.

Industry committee  If somebody names a university after me, then I'll really know I'm a has-been.

Industry committee  I would stick with the policy of inventor owned, because it's not just about the IP, it's who you attract to the university. We think the individuals we attract to the University of Waterloo, both the undergraduates and our faculty members, go there because they have an entrepren

Industry committee  It's about who you can attract. It's much easier to build a culture of innovation if you have the right people up front.

Industry committee  The largest single organization that purchases goods and services in Canada is probably the federal government. Looking at some of these new technologies and the adaptation of new technologies in the purchases by government would be an area where you could probably make a signifi

Industry committee  You're getting into an area on which I'm not really the one to opine. I am not a patent lawyer. I'm an environmental toxicologist. I study the toxic impacts of chemicals. What I do is manage this initiative. For the actual nuts and bolts of different patenting policies I'm not th

Industry committee  The first comment I'll make has to do with whether or not it's disclosed within the university. That would imply that it would be the university that would be active in protecting it and commercializing it. That's not really what I mean. I just want to make sure that it's disclos

Industry committee  At the University of Waterloo, IP is inventor owned. The intellectual property belongs to the inventor, whether it be a graduate student, an undergraduate student, or a faculty member. There is often co-ownership, where there'll be two or three people involved. Individuals are fr

Industry committee  I'm not particularly in favour of a one-size-fits-all approach, because if that happened, I suspect the approach that's used at the University of Waterloo, which is inventor owned, would not be the one that was picked. Each university develops in a different climate. Waterloo wa