Science and Research committee  I can give a 15-second or less answer. The opportunity is in collaboration. We actually defined ways to get government labs that have key facilities and leadership, universities that have emerging ideas that are really disruptive, and industry that has the potential to actually a

Science and Research committee  That's an interesting challenge for me to respond to, after so many years. Part of the challenge, of course, is recognizing that disruptions are really [Technical difficulty—Editor] at the level of innovation and not really at the level of technology. We have seen advances in,

Science and Research committee  I'll try to answer this very succinctly. The NRC has 14 research centres that occupy those 22 sites across the country. We are divided into engineering divisions that have a very applied focus, that have very strong connections with industry and in many cases are working directl

Science and Research committee  We have, of course, infrastructure that has been developed over decades and decades of R and D at the National Research Council, so much of our current infrastructure and the expertise of our engineers, if we want to focus on engineers, actually come from this historical backgrou

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for that question. The NRC is in fact a leader in photonics research and development. The Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre, the CPFC, is actually the world's best pure play fab for the production of photonic devices. We are very grateful for the gene

Science and Research committee  I can't give you the direct numbers, but I can ensure, Madam Chair, that we'll provide those numbers to the member and this committee.

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for an intriguing question. You're asking what I would advise the science adviser of the day. As I look back, what I see is that when I was a young researcher, science and technology moved much more slowly than they do today. They are accelerating at a pa

Science and Research committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the invitation to speak to you today about the National Research Council of Canada, as part of your study on success, challenges and opportunities for science in Canada. We would like to begin by acknowledging that the National Research Council’s fac