ONTARIO GRAIN FARMER MARKET DEVELOPMENT 28 Prograin® Grow Smarter It’s more than seeds It’s expertise It’s support continued from page 27 database. And in March 2024, Bioenterprise and other stakeholders approached the federal government to start addressing many endemic issues in Canada’s innovation-commercialization process. Roundtables were sponsored across the country involving farmers, producer organizations, people who have worked within the innovation system, and many others. Reports were generated based on the roundtable findings and delivered to the government. Smardon says the “similarity” of the reports was uncanny, with the main message directed at the government being “take these 26 issues, focus on a few at a time, and we’re going to work through them until we’ve done them all.” A recommendation that $50 million be set aside to facilitate remedial work in the innovation ecosystem was also made. “We said to these government folks – this isn’t going away. And we’re not going away…We’re going to be coming at you every few months to say, ‘What are we doing next?’” •
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