Editing Canadian Light Source (section)

==Industrial program and economic impact==
[[Image:Cellphone X-ray.jpg|thumb|left|110px|Image of a cellphone taken at CLS]]

From inception, the CLS showed a "strong commitment to industrial users and private/public partnerships", with then-director Bancroft reporting "more than 40 letters of support from industry indicating that [the CLS] is important for what they do". The CLS has an industrial group, within the larger experimental facilities division, with industrial liaison scientists who make synchrotron techniques available to a "non-traditional" user base who are not synchrotron experts. By 2007 more than 60 projects had been carried out,<ref name="tool" /> although in a speech in the same year, then-CLS director Bill Thomlinson said that "one of the biggest challenges for the synchrotron...is to get private users through the door", with less than 10% of time actually used by industry.
 
In 1999 then-Saskatoon mayor Dayday stated that "the CLS will add $122 million to Canada's GDP during construction and $12 million annually after that". An [[economic impact analysis|economic impact study]] of the two [[financial year]]s 2009/10 and 10/11 showed the CLS had added $45 million per year to the Canadian GDP, or about $3 for every $1 of operating funding.<ref name="impact">{{cite web |url=http://www.lightsource.ca/media/media_release_20111122.php |title=Canadian Light Source making positive economic, scientific impacts for Canada |date=22 November 2011 |accessdate=24 July 2012 |archive-date=4 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604114039/http://www.lightsource.ca/media/media_release_20111122.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The CLS has stated that "the primary means of accessing the CLS is through a system of peer review, which ensures that the proposed science is of the highest quality and permits access to the facility to any interested researcher, regardless of regional, national, academic, industrial or governmental affiliation."<ref name="progress" />