Industry committee  Would you like general comments at this point in time?

Industry committee  One big area that I think we've overlooked and haven't talked about at all is our health care system and how advanced manufacturing and looking at procurement locally versus across borders can definitely save costs. We haven't talked about that, but just to give you an example o

Industry committee  I think some of the decisions—

Industry committee  I would say yes.

Industry committee  I would make a very similar comment. We have a gap around the commercialization side. We can't fund companies and ideas and intellectual property at a university with $100,000. We have to look at a fail-fast, fail-cheap mentality, where you're looking at investing a half a millio

Industry committee  I think that's where there has to be a good knowledge transfer process. If it's coming out of a university, are they going to be transferring it, and at what cost? The IP policies are not consistent across the country, so depending on the jurisdiction, there could be an upfront c

Industry committee  Unfortunately—I talked about this just yesterday—it's a no. The rationale we talked about is the number of companies that could use.... If you were to fund multiple SMEs or medium-sized companies with $10 million to grow their business, there could be a huge impact that would be

Industry committee  I would say that additive manufacturing with 3-D printing is 30 years old, and when we start looking at where we are, it is clear that we just have not embraced it. Maybe we haven't needed to embrace it. Maybe that's been the push that was missing, and I think that now, focusing

Industry committee  It's a pre-commercialization centre on the medical side, the Orthopaedic Innovation Centre.

Industry committee  What we're looking at is medical device testing, clinical research, clinical trials, retrospective studies, implant testing, cadaveric testing. When these devices come into Canada, we are actually the ones who validate them as to whether they are devices we should be using. It'

Industry committee  They are imported devices.

Industry committee  Yes, we are doing that as well. We're supporting that, both from a medical testing side as well as from a manufacturing side.

Industry committee  I think a lot of it is a question of the educational gap that needs filling right now for additive manufacturing in Canada. Many other countries have an advanced program curriculum, as I mentioned before.

Industry committee  —teaching it, yes. They actually have undergraduate programs in it. We're not even teaching it. They have full undergraduate curricula in the U.S. I think that's something to think about.

Industry committee  That's correct.