Breakthru

FREDERICTON (NB) –The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) today announced the finalists of its 2011 Breakthru Business Plan Competition. The largest competition of its kind in Canada, over $285,000 in venture capital investments and professional services will be awarded to three of its six ...

By Julianna Cummins – Telegraph Journal | link to original article Dr. Anirban Ghosh is exploring how the abnormal presence of a molecule usually found in human hair and nails could potentially contribute to the development of a cancer of the blood. “The two ends – we got it. Now w...

Twelve business organizations have joined ranks with the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) with an additional $185,000 in support of the Breakthru Business Plan Competition.  Together with NBIF's cash investments, the prize packages for the competition have reached an all-time high. Fi...

FREDERICTON (NB) – The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) is once again on the search for the province's next great entrepreneur. Breakthru – New Brunswick's Business Plan Competition launches today with over $250,000 in investments and professional services for the top t...

by Jon MacNeill – Telegraph Journal | link to original article FREDERICTON – The founder of one of North America's biggest business-plan competitions is hoping Breakthru 2011 will draw plenty of New Brunswick innovators out of the woodwork and into the marketplace. “If (innovat...