Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  We are responsible for agencies that fund primarily fundamental research or earlier-stage research. We haven't worked directly with the organizations or agencies that will deliver that program. At face value, from my perspective and given my university experience, this will be a

Industry committee  I'm going to turn it over to Bert, but I can tell you that our agency has funded research on precisely these questions on rural access, services, and infrastructure. So, if you like, I could take that as homework, and we could dig out some material for you.

Industry committee  I think that makes sense and it's an amazing idea. I was out not that long ago at Red River College, so I'm well aware of the capacity to undertake work there in many fields. I was looking at a program of early childhood education, which is now being exported globally. The metho

Industry committee  I think part of it has to be creating a sense of collaboration in that community, because the options out there at the municipal, provincial, and federal level are mind-boggling. The only other thing I would say is that in this repository of misfit toys, some are very cool. I've

Industry committee  That's not to mention as well that CFI, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, does have a college infrastructure program. They should be talking to them for sure.

Industry committee  Context is really important.

Industry committee  Bert spoke to this very well, and the fact is that not everything needs to be conceived as product development technology transfer. Working together produces amazing results sometimes when there's no obvious IP. I've seen it more than once. I've seen a $25,000 project at a major

Industry committee  My understanding was that you were also asking about where the money goes, in terms of where the investments go. Is that correct?

Industry committee  In our estimation, across the councils it's fairly standard. Most of the money, 70%, goes to people. The researchers are paid through the university, but they hire students and research assistants, so these are big investments in communities. In London, Ontario, the $100 million

Industry committee  As I was saying in my earlier comments, first of all, there's a huge compulsion within the academic community to publish. That's part and parcel of the requirement for any research funding that goes on anywhere across the country, regardless of the discipline, to get that informa

Industry committee  Let's put it this way. If the investigator ultimately develops the IP and is under an obligation to report it to the university, that's true whether the investigator owns the IP or the university owns the IP. If you don't want to report that, even though nominally the university

Industry committee  There are probably more.

Industry committee  It's worse than that.

Industry committee  Let's go right back to the notion of disclosures. I was the same: when I started out at Western back in 2002, I said we had to get our disclosure rate up. The fact is, you can do that. You can walk around, talk to everybody, get them to disclose, and put everything on the table.