I don't know that government needs to be more of a risk-taker than it already is. The government does have programs funded through the BDC where it does assume some of the risk related to deep tech and other IP heavy companies.
What I do think, however, and you've alluded to it in your comments, is that we have a behaviour problem. If the Canadian government wants to change the behaviour of the actors, then the Canadian government should be looking at incentives that will effectively change that behaviour.
With respect to the lack of personnel or the lack of qualified personnel within the TTOs, the tech transfer offices, the government did have a program about 20 years ago where it would fund part of the salaries of those people who were experts in tech transfer, experts in intellectual property, and allowed the TTOs to have more staff.
That program was cut about 20 years ago. Maybe it would be a good idea to revisit that, because that way, you're subsidizing or helping the TTOs spread the knowledge more effectively. You're building expertise within the TTOs, so that you can have more effective tech transfer out of the universities into the hands of entrepreneurs, who can then take that IP and bring it to market.