Industry committee  Thank you for the question. The issue is that those programs require industrial participation up front in terms of dollars. They require private investment before the programs can even begin. The issue with this is there's so much technology that is created.... We have a great

Industry committee  I've been talking about this for quite a while now, and I think that's really a necessary part of what the government needs to be supporting, and I will say that there's so much leverage on those dollars. We're talking about doing lab-scale work where people can take that data fo

Industry committee  The companies that we work with are very nascent, very young. They are start-ups and entrepreneurs. Many of them come from an academic background. They are trying to commercialize technologies that were developed by universities. Very often they have a great idea and they have en

Industry committee  You're right. That can be a gap. At times we've run several programs. We're quite well networked across Canada because we run some NRC IRAP-sponsored programs, so we get in touch with a lot of different companies. With the IRAP program, it's SMEs that are more at the revenue-gene

Industry committee  Good morning, Madam Chair, ladies and gentlemen. We are pleased to appear before you on behalf of GreenCentre Canada. We're grateful for the opportunity to provide our perspectives on economic recovery for the clean-tech sector. We've had the pleasure of meeting several committe