Innovation Insights

SAINT JOHN, (NB) – Every year, pharmacists in Canada alone dispense 450 million paper-based drug prescriptions.  In the United States it’s 3.5 billion. Every day, many of those pharmacists struggle with two problems: illegible handwriting and negative drug interactions. Both can lead to adv...

By Greg Weston, Times & Transcript – Published Thursday October 7th, 2010 | Link to original article FREDERICTON – Carrying a handwritten slip from the doctor's office to the pharmacy may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to new technology being developed right here in New Bru...

BY QUENTIN CASEY – THE TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL | link to original article HALIFAX – One of New Brunswick's blooming technology companies is expanding to Halifax, thanks to a financial incentive from the Nova Scotia government. On Thursday, Nova Scotia Business Inc., the province's busi...

The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of National Revenue, Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, was in Charlotte County today to view the innovative marine cage system and announce funding to the Saint John-based Open Ocean Systems Inc. “Our...

The days of getting into a piping hot automobile in the middle of summer may one day be gone. A specialist in materials science, Dr Pandurang Ashrit and his team have developed is a super efficient thin film that, when applied to a surface, and reaches 68 degrees Celsius, reflects away most of the s...