Science and Research committee  I think there's a way of competing, and I thank you for that question. Maybe I should qualify this. We've fallen behind dramatically on the business expenditure in R and D. In the higher-education expenditure, we're still there, but over the last 20 years, when you look at the

Science and Research committee  As I said earlier in my remarks, I have done this analysis many times and I would be willing to pass it on to the committee; it is very easy to see what has happened over the last 20 years. You know, two elements are important. On the one hand, there are the inflation costs, whi

Science and Research committee  Absolutely. Thank you very much for the question, because it's something that we did put in our brief that Monsieur Blanchette-Joncas made reference to. You can invest in research in two different ways. Well, you can in many ways, but one is by providing funding to the granting

Science and Research committee  I would say that it is primarily companies that do not invest enough internally in research and development. Several studies have been done on this. One of them, from the Council of Canadian Academies, simply said that companies have been innovative to the point where they shoul

Science and Research committee  So as not to repeat what Dr. Goel and Dr. Pomeroy have just indicated, one of the things I'll say is that research is a contact sport. Research is the interactions of researchers, of students and of the business sector coming together, again, with government researchers. One of t

Science and Research committee  This is one of the big challenges. One of the things we'd like to do is to analyze the patterns that are happening in business right now, and we have to admit that over the last 20 years, business expenditures in R and D, where most of the intellectual property is generated, have

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me start by saying how pleased I am to have been invited to speak to you today about the importance of science and research. I am here as the executive director of the U15, an organization that brings together many of Canada's leading research universi

Finance committee  Thank you so much for your question. This is indeed a concern to universities, and not just to our group, U15. I mentioned that 30 universities receive less than their share of indirect costs, what we call the full costs of research. I do not want to get too technical, but you h

Finance committee  That's an excellent question. It piggybacks on what Valerie was talking about earlier in terms of making sure that in the process we also connect students with the potential employers going forward. Let me address the question by also trying to clarify that among the various gro

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like first to thank you for inviting me to present the measures that the federal government could take to encourage Canadians to contribute to economic growth in a changing economic environment. We are in a period of strong international competitio