Industry committee  I can't really comment because I'm not familiar with it, but I want to caution that the supercluster is not going to solve all of Canada's problem. I think everyone is kind of aware of that. It's one of the tools in the tool belt, but I think it requires a multi-pronged approach.

Industry committee  The first thing is that this needs to be done in a cooperative manner, meaning that anything that is described will actually have an academic focus, an industry focus, and an SME focus and that you will be solving a real-world problem that someone at some point wants to spend mon

Industry committee  Exactly. Fail as fast as you can.

Industry committee  The model that we're using seems to work. I don't know if it's the answer for all. There has to be collaboration between the various organizations. The universities have a role to play. Right now we're utilizing them for a talent base because we're working on next-generation netw

Industry committee  Maybe it's a simplistic view from my side, but I would like to see the universities working on real-world problems. If you're not satisfying a business need, a government need, and changing Canadian citizens' lives, I'm not sure why we're doing that kind of work.

Industry committee  I would say open broadband with gigabit speeds. We should think about something very different from 50 megabit—that's embarrassing. In terms of a single policy, I like to think about ones that have a long-term effect, not a short-term one. I think, from an industry perspective,

Industry committee  I'm a gigantic fan of broadband Internet's being the underpinning, and in that case it doesn't matter where you are.

Industry committee  Yes, I agree. We have recently been awarded funding by the Ontario government to link all the innovation centres in Ontario. For whatever reason, there's not one in Barrie and I don't understand why that is, because it's certainly a growing economy. It's very close to Toronto.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Well, it's a little bit of a loaded question.

Industry committee  We will be submitting—

Industry committee  —a proposal to the supercluster, because, in fact, I want to connect all the superclusters together. Only then will you actually see collaboration across the country. I'm from north of Barrie, so we're in the same area.

Industry committee  I'm from Penetanguishene, a small community up there. As to the innovation centres, the centres of excellence, the superclusters, I don't see any difference between them. They're all working towards the same purpose, which is to better our economy. We need to interconnect them

Industry committee  Our policy—and I don't know if it's the right one in the ICT space—is that the intellectual property always remains with the SME. That's the default, unless something unusual happens in which someone wants to pay for it, someone wants to partner, or the SME agrees that there were

Industry committee  Correct. Large businesses know where their gaps are. They might not be able to move fast enough. Small companies could fill that gap. They're much more nimble. They can move more quickly, but they should be protected unless they plan to acquire those companies. Unfortunately, as