Creative Generalist is one of my favourite Canadian blog sites. That's why it is in our centre column feed roll. Take a look at their coverage of last week's Idea City conference.

They write:

Co-founder and president of RIM (the inventor of the Blackberry) Mike Lazaridis stressed the importance of investing in research - particularly that of our universities and colleges.
1. Fund the best researchers and fund them well.
2. Fund their labs to bring them here (Canada).
3. And fund their students.