Industry committee  The U.S. put the Bayh-Dole Act into place in 1980, I think. As mentioned, I believe that it was really to direct the federal funding aspect so it wasn't owned by the government. A lot of universities do have some ownership of that particular aspect of the technology developed fro

Industry committee  It's interesting. IPIC has been looking at education programs that we could use to try to instill the idea of innovation at the high school level as well. You get into different aspects of who looks after these different levels of education. You have different systems. It's not q

Industry committee  I think it would vary from university to university, but I will tell you that in my work with universities, a lot of it is education. They do not understand the basics of business and how to promote IP innovation.

Industry committee  A long-term goal, I would say, is more of a cultural change and shift to an innovation culture. I know that China right now is starting to look into that as well. They don't have an innovation culture, but they will have one, and we need to develop one as well. It's a long-term g

Industry committee  I think my comment was along the lines that there is a funding gap between getting a company to a certain point, the beginning of it, and then getting it to the next stage, the SME for example. I think there's a bit of a funding gap at that particular point. Universities often s

Industry committee  This is an interesting question, because I don't think there's actually one program that meets all these things. You have start-up companies; you have companies that are going from start-up to SME; and then of course you have the issue of going to scale. I have a quote here from

Industry committee  A couple of months ago, I was at an Ontario government health care initiative, and the issue of how to introduce new medical devices to hospitals came up. Of course, when you go to the big cities, you end up with huge bureaucracies. It's almost impossible to get innovations into

Industry committee  That's actually the first area of technology transfer they've identified in which industries go to universities and fund research to help further their development. I do work with a lot of universities, and that is one model I see. I think the main issue there is the knowledge le

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank all members of the industry, science, and technology committee for allowing me to speak to you about facilitating technology transfer in Canada. My name is Stephen Beney, and I'm the council president of the Intellectual Property Insti