Innovation Insights

Our overarching mission is to support the innovation agenda in New Brunswick. One way we do that is by working with our partners at the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training, and Labour (PETL) to support research that boosts productivity or addresses labour market shortages.  Matchin...

At NBIF, we are excited to be launching the Early Stage Commercialization Fund (ESCF) in our province. This new fund works to bridge a gap on the funding pathway to commercialization for academic researchers in New Brunswick. As an organization that offers both research and venture capital funding, ...

There has been a lot going on behind the scene at NBIF that we are really excited about. Our partnership with Mitacs is one of them. This partnership will provide funding for 40 internships, valued at up to $17,500 each, earmarked explicitly for NBIF venture capital portfolio companie...

A lot of people think high tech business only speaks the language of coding. But some of the most advanced tech in the world is focused on humanity’s first industry – agriculture. Agronomist Dr. Erika Naruzawa at the Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick’s INNOV group in Grand Falls ...

What if we could turn pollution in water into energy?  With support from our Equipment Fund, that’s what Dr. Liefer, an assistant professor in Biology at Mount Allison University, is exploring. He is researching how phytoplankton can be used to absorb pollution in wastewater and then turned i...