Industry committee  I would fund a voucher that small firms can use to get international IP advice. It's not about funding to get a patent, because a patent may not be the right answer, but I would fund getting that strategic advice.

Industry committee  Do you want me to begin?

Industry committee  Clusters have two dimensions. One is very geographic, because we know that where we have a certain number of players, we build out from there, and it's really important for that ecosystem, but they are also nationally focused. We are exceedingly small in Canada. I think Jim Hint

Industry committee  Probably some of the researchers and projects are funded through that fund. It was more project oriented. The difference with the CFREF—which also crossed both governments—is that it's institution-wide. A lot of the money's going into making open science data available—there's re

Industry committee  The superclusters are based on industry, which I think is the right focus for them. Most of the patents for the type of stuff we come up with at universities are useless. They're way too early stage. They have no commercial viability. That's one of the reasons why it's not worth

Industry committee  The Montreal Neurological Institute, in fact.

Industry committee  This is all relatively new. One of the government funds set up by the former government, continued by the present government, is the Canada first research excellence fund. Some of the funding came from it. The chief aim, obviously, is research on neurodegenerative diseases. In

Industry committee  Certainly, and I think you're quite right. This is an area where industry itself is moving. I work more closely with the pharmaceutical industry. Probably the best example is the work that the Structural Genomics Consortium is doing. It's based in Toronto. About a quarter of it i

Industry committee  Are you starting this question with me?

Industry committee  Thank you very much for inviting me. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Because I only had two days to prepare, I didn't get to translate my brief into French. I apologize. I'm here in my personal capacity, not as associate dean, but as a James McGill professor in both law a