Innovation Insights

The COVID-19 crisis has caused tremendous damage to the global economy in general and to many start-up companies in particular. This has hit so quickly that many businesses are reeling, unsure what to do next. I recently spoke to a group of NBIF’s portfolio company CEOs. For some, the crisis is dr...

COVID-19 has upended the plans of millions of businesses around the world, including many of those here in New Brunswick. No one anticipated the effective shut down of vast swathes of the economy in a matter of days and weeks, or the fact that it could potentially last months. This creates unprecede...

Move over satellites as big as buses that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to construct – there’s a new player in the game. And it’s just a little bigger than a carton of milk. Cube satellites, or CubeSats, are miniature satellites that are cheaper, smaller, smarter and faster to build tha...

Ever heard the saying ‘it takes one to know one’? Although most of us have probably heard our grandmothers muttering it under their breath, the phrase means something slightly different to Ray Fitzpatrick, the NBIF’s Director of Investments and an entrepreneur in his own right as co-owner of D...

When’s the last time you rode your bike for 10 kilometers? How about 100? How about 6500? Most of us can confidently say that we’ve never considered traversing the length of the former Ottoman Empire by bicycle, but for Dr. Laura Richard, the NBIF’s new Director of Research, that cross-contine...