Industry committee  Typically, when we're working with universities, it will be under some sort of grant program. Those grant programs have requirements, usually to fund research within a university. A good part of the requirements is they require a commercialization partner, like a tech company lik

Industry committee  I think anything you do to drive upfront transparency of any IP ownership as output is critical. What that lets you do is decide whether you want to do it in the first place. If the IP outcome is not favourable, you'll know that and may decide not to participate. If it is, then y

Industry committee  In part. We're tough negotiators, but at the end of the day, when you jointly own something, you need to come to a resolution, especially on something like IP. We see this more so in the U.S. than in Canada, but it's something to look at not doing in Canada. Developing an envi

Industry committee  It definitely would be, yes. I think it's fair.

Industry committee  I'm happy to take 20 seconds, if I can. I'd reiterate all that's been said. When we look across Canada at the importance of IP, especially speaking with the tech field, we see that almost 70% of tech companies in Canada have fewer than five employees. When we then think about ho

Industry committee  Especially in the tech field, we talk about R and D. Especially in application development, generally speaking, you're much closer to the D than you are the R. That being said, there is still research that happens within companies. In terms of investment and return on that inve

Industry committee  Right. If we think about just the simple cost of investing in research in a partnership, we have to weigh that against the cost of just bringing researchers on board as part of the team and doing that research in-house. When we think about emergent fields like AI and machine lea

Industry committee  Good morning, distinguished members of the committee. My name is Jeremy Auger. I'm the chief strategy officer of D2L, a world-leading learning technology company based in Kitchener, Ontario. Founded in 1999, D2L has evolved from a small start-up of just five people to one that no