Finance committee  First, it's certainly not working quite well because we have very few personnel coming for training in the university. It probably works for other levels like the secondary level or maybe the college level but not for the university. The second thing is the fact that probably ma

Finance committee  Okay. You're looking for one example where our collaboration succeeded. We have many. I will take my faculty as an example. In 2000, our faculty created the Institute of Nutrition and Functional Food. At that time we changed our business model. At that time, we received 7% of o

Finance committee  Mr. Sorbara, I will answer your question. If we want to accelerate innovation, we must first help SMEs with matching funds. I'll give the example of the faculty at Université Laval. About a hundred small businesses are working with us, whether they're producers or small processo

Finance committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. We have three recommendations. The first recommendation involves matching funds. We are well aware that small and medium enterprises are highly innovative, but that they are challenged to invest as much as major councils o