Great article.  We gather and educate our smartest kids then watch them walk off to "better" jobs at Google and Microsoft, where they build products that Canadian companies have to license.  Tying government policy to generating IP for Canadian companies, allowing them to win on the world stage, results in more corporate R&D expenditure, better local jobs for the smart kids and more corporate tax revenue for the government. We have great inventors, they just do too much of it for the large US tech firms.