Innovation Insights

Negotiations- Is it winner take all?

I was watching a show last night and there was a typical scene where the Billionaire business-person was claiming that “this is a negotiation, and negotiations are what I do best”. The idea here is that one person would win and the other would lose. This scene led me to think about a Negotiation...

Q&A – Exploring the Loneliness that Came with COVID-19

It’s been very clear to many that a side effect of COVID-19 is the loneliness that people have felt being physically and socially isolated from their close family and friends, especially those residing in long-term care facilities. For months, many people were unable to visit with their families l...

A look at N.B. Venture Capital 2020

Exciting things are on deck in New Brunswick. CVCA recently released its Q1 report, featuring a heat map of where the investments were happening across Canada. If you look at New Brunswick, it showed six deals and $2 million invested. If you look at the rest of Atlantic Canada, there wasn’t a ...

NBIF Portfolio Spotlight – Kognitiv Spark

Kognitiv Spark, a Fredericton-based NBIF portfolio company, builds secure and reliable augmented reality tools to help businesses overcome complex repairs and maintenance task that would otherwise warrant a senior technician boarding a plane and travelling a great distance to complete any given task...

New Brunswick: a story of innovation

New Brunswick has a long history of global innovation. In fact, most New Brunswickers would be surprised to learn just how many important inventions and ideas started right here at home. Early Human InnovationPerhaps the earliest example of New Brunswick innovation would be the recently identified c...