Innovation Insights

TORONTO: CVCA – Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association announced that Summerhill Venture Partners, Brightspark Ventures and BDC Venture Capital are the recipients of CVCA’s 2011 ‘Deal of the Year Award’ for the venture capital category. Established in 1998, the purp...

By Geof Bird – Telegraph Journal | link to original articl First Angel Network, a Halifax-based organization that shares research information and pools investment capital, is touring New Brunswick in late October and early November with members of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation to rai...

By Stephen Llewellyn – Daily Gleaner | link to original article A Fredericton company has received more than $600,000 to expand its sales of high-tech packaging that protects electronics from the damaging effects of static electricity. KnowCharge Inc. is getting $200,000 from the New Brunswick...

By Stephen Llewellyn – Daily Gleaner | link to original article Stronger concrete. Lighter concrete. Environmentally friendly concrete. Salt-resistant concrete. Those are just a few of the types of concrete that will be studied at the new Sydney E. Acker Concrete and Masonry Laboratory at the ...

By Sabrina Doyle – Telegraph Journal | link to original article From the slimy, dismembered body parts of sea animals, scientists may one day be able to help prevent diabetes, obesity and brain diseases linked to aging. Dr. Jacques Gagnon is spearheading a multimillion-dollar research project ...