Natural Resources committee  Yes, certainly in our funding, the IP is owned by the companies if it's a government-funded program, where there is collaboration with our national laboratories—which there can be. IP that's generated by the labs is owned by the crown, but different arrangements can be implemented to license and enable that IP to be used commercially.

Natural Resources committee  They're in clusters.

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. Part of what we've been doing over the past year and a half is really looking at some of those international best practices, and certainly Australia is on our list of countries to get to know. In terms of our relationships, we have multiple international relationships but I would say, truly, we've been quite focused on a very intensive back and forth with the U.S from an R and D perspective.

Natural Resources committee  One of the things that came out very clearly in our consultation process was the particularities around the sectors that are dominated by smaller operators, or SMEs. In agriculture there were some examples of that, and in fisheries as well. In these sectors, there's an increased need for measures to support adoption of new technologies because of the prohibitive cost at times of implementing them and the risks associated with that.