Industry committee  Absolutely. In part it's an exercise conceived to help impress upon Canadians from all walks of life the importance of the research that's done in social sciences and humanities for the future of our country. In terms of the specific areas, the intention was to engage Canadians,

Industry committee  Subject to the same ups and downs, but the exercise was very focused on encouraging that discussion. Some things have come out of that. With NSERC, CIHR, Genome, and others, we're developing a framework policy for data management that will include an open data element at the end

Industry committee  I'd be happy to. I'm glad you looped back to something I wanted to touch on. On the safety issue per se, I could come back to the example that I gave with the Forest Products Association of Canada and their 40-storey wooden buildings. A lot of that is, again, simply research tha

Industry committee  I agree with you. That said, our organization funds research, so I am not sure we have the solution. We encourage partnerships with industry. There are also internships and training under our Mitacs partnerships. But we do not control the activities of industries and companies.

Industry committee  I think they'll have slightly different answers than mine, because I want to talk a bit more about process. The kinds of things that I was talking about—design, the content piece, the things that really make technologies sing, that create the disruptions—quite often are not reg

Industry committee  I think this is a very good question, and as you noted, it gets at something I talked about that I want to emphasize once again. In this model that we tend to apply we think of basic research moving down a continuum to application. Then we ask the question about where the eureka

Industry committee  Thank you. I would just simply agree with much of what's been said. From the perspective of SSHRC and the social sciences and humanities, we tend to see the basic versus applied issue as more of a continuum. People do work that may be seen as very basic but then it leads to appl

Industry committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair, and thank you. On behalf of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, I want to thank you and the committee members for the opportunity to appear before you today with respect to additive manufacturing and other disruptive technologies. At SS