Industry committee  Okay, I'll link you to that strategic procurement report.

Industry committee  I just have a quick comment about what Tom was saying. There are many different policies. As an example, in Ottawa, Carleton University has the same policy as the University of Waterloo. Ottawa U has a combination policy in that it's university-owned and inventor-owned. What

Industry committee  I don't profess to be a trade specialist, so I can't help you with that. I know that other jurisdictions, especially in the United States and Mexico, which we have NAFTA agreements with, are supporting their small businesses and buying their products. They're doing it under defen

Industry committee  We have to find a way, as others have.

Industry committee  I'm certainly not recommending that you go into the procurement process completely, because that's a very long process. But what I am recommending is that there may be an opportunity to look at a situation where Canadian innovation has come out of federally sponsored research act

Industry committee  I think you need to specify standard rules about how intellectual property can be transferred to the private sector and who owns it. There are all kinds of different variations that you can have on it, but there are no set rules now from any of your granting councils as to what h

Industry committee  Do you want me to go first?

Industry committee  In terms of what OCRI is doing to help companies get into our university program, we've very fortunate that on our board of directors we have the two local university presidents, one of the colleges, and one of the federal research labs. This process, though, of bringing compan

Industry committee  To add to what Tom was saying, you also have an environment right now where there's collaboration going on with researchers. So you can get researchers from multiple institutions working on it, and they each have different IP policies. Our concern is the varying differences betwe

Industry committee  To go into the troubles of the venture capital industry would take us more than the time allotted here. Suffice to say that what I was trying to get at is that we've made some terrible mistakes with the venture capital industry over the past ten years. We have. We invested in com

Industry committee  Yes, I will.

Industry committee  Thank you. I apologize for being late. We went to the wrong building.

Industry committee  Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to present to you today on the topic of commercialization. OCRI, or the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation, was established 25 years ago as a facilitator of commercialization between our federal labs, our universities, and t

Finance committee  Right now under the SR&ED program if you are a Canadian-controlled private corporation and you make your claim for your SR&ED credit, the amount of your credit is refundable. So you're correct, a cheque is written back to you for that. Our proposal was to try to take a

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here once again. Our brief is just being handed out to you now. I apologize; we just got the call on Friday. You will find copies of our brief in French and English being distributed to you at this moment. I'd like to focus