Personally, as invested as I am in the software space, I think Canada should <i>not</i> invest in software technology, at least not exclusively. It&#x27;s cheap enough that we could still encourage it.<p>I was doing my Masters in Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto (did not complete). The number of talented students and professors that I interacted with on a regular basis was astounding. And they were working on really amazing things.<p>Here&#x27;s a group of potentially 100s of well-educated students that came out of the Canadian education system, so our tax dollars went towards a lot of their training. And once they&#x27;re done their PhD, they&#x27;re stuck trying to compete for very limited faculty positions, or finding a post-doc program somewhere, usually abroad.<p>The brain drain in biotechnology is the one we should be worrying about. We have fantastic resources available here in terms of teaching hospitals and facilities, but no one&#x27;s taking advantage of it. And the space of biotechnology is so broad and unexplored, that we could be investing in a number of avenues to try to achieve something in the area.<p>To quote the cliched Wayne Gretzky: Skate to where the puck is going, not where it is.