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"It's our way to articulate not only the importance of integration of teaching and research but also to communicate that the Canadian community is really making great strides in science education as well as in scientific research," explains James Gentile, President of Research Corporation.

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"The most important concept you have to remember is that technology doesn't mean you have a company." Says Roger Bernier, Vice-President of Foragen Technologies Management.

“You build bigger, you go fainter, you go deeper, and you’ll have a shot at a major discovery.” --Ralph Pudritz, professor of physics and astronomy at McMaster University.

The Industrial Research Fellowships program provides financial support to allow fellows to do a 2-year postdoc at research facilities in Canada's private sector.

"Our roads through science may or may not be written in the stars, writes Next Wave's new Canadian Editor, but either way there is still enough time for gazing."

"These are pipeline programs; these are the programs that produce both human capital and technologies, and NASA basically disrupted the pipeline," says Lennard Fisk, a space science professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,and co-author of a National Research Council Report.

"You have to understand the economics of the industry you want to be in and work on projects that matter to corporations," says Stephen Murphy, director of R&D for the Hockey Company.

"I do very advanced programming that targets very advanced research and development that is extremely technically challenging, and clearly having a degree and background in physics makes me the right person to be doing this," says James Pond, co-founder of the software company Lumerical Solutions."

"Students are getting a kind of training that we can't give them at the university. They're learning how to take apart a problem, distill it into its different pieces, and find the real issues." -Arvind Gupta.

"I think it's very important when you're young, not to put limits on yourself," says [Celine] Ster.

"They're wide-eyed, bright researchers who want to make a difference, and all we have to do is supply them with the right resources, the right information, and the right process and they're just dying to go." says Richard Bruno, Director of the Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) at McGill University in Montreal.

"You can't turn the money on and just watch it regenerate itself," says Michael Pivovaroff.

“Our colliders are like time machines for physicists,” says Young-Kee Kim, the deputy director of Fermilab. “In a sense, we are creating early universes in our accelerators.”

"This is a lifelong dream come true for me. For the first time Canadian-built science will actually touch down on the Martian surface, and I am taking part." - Isabelle Tremblay, Phoenix mission systems engineer, Canadian Space Agency

"I remember starting out with a simple interest in languages and language acquisition as a hobby. Now it's taken me to looking at how the brain is hardwired, and understanding how the influence of environment can alter this wiring structure." --Edward Ruthazer

"I remember being a student in the lab, and a sales guy came to show software and I thought that I never want to be that guy. Then I became that guy, and I found that it matured me scientifically." - Chris Williams, Principal Scientist, Chemical Computing Group.

I still feel that I am very much in touch with science, only without the burden of having to do bench work 60-hours-plus a week," says Daniel Begin, a senior patent examiner at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.

Day-to-day environmental challenges compel Australians into fields of applied sciences," says Lamontagne.