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Industry committee I can speak to Ontario. There are regional innovation centres are across the province in every region. It's a good place for a start-up, a new company, or even a company that has a new product line to go and find help, either market intelligence or connection to funding, venture
June 1st, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Marc Nantel
Industry committee Yes. It is usually people who work together rather that institutions working together. Most of the time it's this researcher who knows he or she wants to solve this problem or create new knowledge and then needs the other person at the other place. I'm not a big fan of shotgu
June 1st, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Marc Nantel
Industry committee We're perfectly happy to fail.
June 1st, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Marc Nantel
Industry committee The thing is that it's more the potential of the idea that we evaluate. If it succeeds, will it have a chance to create jobs, good economic development, good training for the students? In some projects, we try our best and they don't actually achieve the desired output. That's co
June 1st, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Marc Nantel
Industry committee We look at the potential of that project, should it be successful. Sometimes the potential is really tantalizing, but it's a riskier project and sometimes they don't work.
June 1st, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Marc Nantel
Industry committee Essentially, whenever a company comes to us we discuss with them their aspirations, their problem for that particular project. We make the scope of the project, but also we make sure that up front they know what their contribution is going to be to the project, in cash and in kin
June 1st, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Marc Nantel
Industry committee We are the stewards of the taxpayers' money through NSERC or provincial funding, so we don't take every project. Some of them are just stupid. We just want to make the good ones, those that will actually have a chance for, in our particular case, good training, good intellectual
June 1st, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Marc Nantel
Industry committee Interestingly, on the mushroom picking one, Vineland needed to have their machine learn how to pick the mushrooms, so we 3-D printed a bunch of mushrooms for them in plastic of different sizes and also different types of suction cups. For example, that's very close to material. W
June 1st, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Marc Nantel
Industry committee I don't know if it would have gone through security.
June 1st, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Marc Nantel
Industry committee Thank you very much. Hello. My name is Marc Nantel. I am the associate vice-president of research and innovation at Niagara College. I've been in this position for six years. Before that, I spent 13 years plus at the Ontario Centres of Excellence in dealing with IP and program
June 1st, 2017Committee meeting
Dr. Marc Nantel