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Industry committee  Absolutely, and I wanted to illustrate that. The Montreal meeting is our second meeting since we've reorganized. Last year, we had a meeting in Toronto. The first day of the meeting was a start-up course in sharing best practices among the institutions. We had room for 72 people,

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  Exactly. Forty people signed up just to participate in another room by video.

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  Yes. In the west, another Western Economic Diversification program we had was WestLink. It was an education program. It's been gone for five years or so, but we at Innovate Calgary—we haven't announced this—are very interested in reconstituting that in maybe a week-long course

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  It takes about three years to get a person who is not well versed in IP or technology transfer to where they're minimally useful. That three-year life is going to apply to any new inexperienced hire.

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  Yes. First, on the knowledge, there's the Lambert agreement in the U.K. I don't know if you're aware of that.

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  They have a really nice website and a suite of standard agreements that they've designed to fit particular situations. You can take a look at that.

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  Yes. At our Montreal meeting, we're going to have a panel on that. If you would like to join us for the panel, we will be discussing the Lambert agreements and standardization of contracts. With respect to education, yes, ACCT Canada was disbanded in 2013. For a year or two, Ca

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  Yes, starting in 2014.

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  Help us keep the small companies that we're creating in Canada, and that relates directly to investment. Direct investment from the government is great, but so is helping to attract investors from around the world here to Canada to see our companies and invest in them here.

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  I know how it didn't work, too. When the funding was taken away, not only were the staffing levels reduced at the universities, but the most experienced people were lost because they had the higher salaries.

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  I'll hit the last point. Innovate Calgary is a private company, so we do have that vehicle. AUTM also collects data on the number of professionals associated with each university. I see Steve getting really excited about that, so I'll let him go ahead.

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  Can I just add a little to that?

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  We have to remember that the intellectual property market is a worldwide market, and the intellectual property is going to go to the country and the business that is best able to develop it and deliver it to the population of the world. At Innovate Calgary, we have about 100 acti

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter

Industry committee  Say that again, please.

June 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Kenneth Porter