Percée

Un aspect clé de la mission de la FINB est d’appuyer la recherche dès les premières étapes. Les idées sont toujours le tremplin de l’innovation et, sans un soutien précoce, de nombreux projets qui, autrement, se transformeraient en technologies productives ou en produits commerciau...

À la FINB, nous sommes d’avis qu’il faut les efforts d’une communauté entière pour créer une véritable culture de l’innovation. Il ne fait aucun doute que la stratégie de croissance du Nouveau-Brunswick repose fortement sur l’innovation, mais est-ce possible d’y arriver simplement ...

Lisa Pfister loves horses. She’s even breeding her mare, who is expected to foal sometime this Spring. Sometime. “The gestation period for a horse is between 320 and 370 days. That 50-day window creates a lot of uncertainty as to when the foal will arrive,” says Pfister. Owners and veterinaria...

It was in her third year of studies at the University of Prince Edward Island that Erin O’Halloran knew she wanted to start a business. “I started writing down an idea per day,” says O’Halloran. “They were mostly thoughts on making existing things better or more fun. I had 70 ideas down on...

Bethany Deshpande says the light-bulb moment behind her Fredericton-based agro-tech start-up happened by accident. Her father, an inventor, was working with a diagnostic tool he had developed, which uses light-scattering technology to provide information about blood samples. He made it a practice to...