Industry committee  I agree. One thing that has to happen in the overall tech community here, and it's great.... We're at close proximity to the U.S., but we also have to be cognizant of looking at other tech ecosystems, such as in Israel. One thing that happens with Israel is they focus on one or t

Industry committee  We appreciate the invite.

Industry committee  Absolutely.

Industry committee  Adding to infrastructure, it's having high-speed Internet connectivity too. That becomes key. It ties in the rural, everything like that, and that's critical too.

Industry committee  The hard reality is you're not going to know if you're successful for five or seven years, and that becomes a problem. You're betting the chips on something that you're not going to know if it was successful or not for seven years. In the meantime, it doesn't mean you can't have

Industry committee  I just want to pipe in very quickly. I've been very fortunate as an entrepreneur, as have a lot of our members. We've leveraged the trade commissioner offices and the consular offices around North America and around the world. The key is that those trade commissioners are alread

Industry committee  One final point on that is that people like doing business with people they know, and it's a relationship—I'm sure Code would agree—that develops over time. That's all part and parcel of it as well.

Industry committee  The good news is there's never been a better time than in today's society, where you have Internet connectivity and video conferencing, and wish to have the rural areas.... I'm originally from southwestern Ontario, and that's another area that—if you're outside of Kitchener-Wat

Industry committee  Absolutely. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the researcher doesn't.... He should be able to have some success in what's been created; however, I know there are certain instances where they can't be the roadblock either. Again, what's the entire goal? Is the goal for uni

Industry committee  Yes, like my earlier comment, you can't force innovation, but if you bring smart people together and, as I always say, row the boat in the same direction, very innovative and cool things end up happening. As entrepreneurs you need that support system, especially at the beginning

Industry committee  Absolutely.

Industry committee  What's interesting is that you can't regulate or force innovation. That is kind of talking across the board. The government's role, I think, is to support it. I think you have to have a favourable tax rate to encourage innovation. When you look at entrepreneurs and government, e

Industry committee  Absolutely, because what happens is IP is just the foundation, and it's all the knowledge that's been accumulated in order to create that IP. A perfect example would be artificial intelligence. That can be used in various factors. It can be used in the medical field. It can be us

Industry committee  Exactly, because what ends up happening from the entrepreneur and CEO side, from a technology business, if I can shave off six months in development because someone already is up to speed on it, and already has something that we can license, hands down, we're going to try to stri

Industry committee  It goes back to the theme that this is knowledge transfer instead of technology transfer, because in business, especially technology businesses, time equals money. If you can develop a product quickly and get it out into the marketplace, you'll get ahead of the competitor, becaus