Local tech leaders meet with Industry Minister
Posted Feb 25, 2011 04:49:50 PM.
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Local tech leaders got a chance to chat with Industry Minister Tony Clement in Waterloo today.
A roundtable discussion was held at the Institute for Quantum Computing and Clement says there were three main issues that came through loud and clear.
The first was the challenge of securing and keeping talent. Clement says , “UW and other great Canadian institutions are graduating a lot of good people but it’s always a challenge to find the right people in the right spot to grow here in Waterloo, or in Ontario, or in Canada”
Clement says the second message he heard was that the government’s research and development assistance was essential for the companies to be created.
He says they also talked about how companies in other parts of Canada can take a page from Waterloo’s book, saying “the accelerator model that is found here, how this is used to get companies to commercialization stage and how that can be emulated in other parts of the country.”
Clement also answered questions from the media about fostering competition in the telecom market and the current issues with the CRTC and usage based billing. Hear what he had to say in the video below…
