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Business Community Supports Breakthru With $185,000

Business Community Supports Breakthru With $185,000

Twelve business organizations have joined ranks with the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) with an additional $185,000 in support of the Brea...
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$250,000 Breakthru Business Plan Competition Launched

$250,000 Breakthru Business Plan Competition Launched

FREDERICTON (NB) – The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) is once again on the search for the province's next great entrepreneur. Br...
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Innovation foundation, law firm launch bi-annual competition

Innovation foundation, law firm launch bi-annual competition

by Jon MacNeill – Telegraph Journal | link to original article FREDERICTON – The founder of one of North America's biggest business-pl...
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Start-up funding lures back native

Start-up funding lures back native

By Jennifer Campbell – Telegraph Journal | link to original article A Saint John native and rising star in the field of chemistry has been lured...
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Start-up Funds Bring Back New Brunswick Researcher

Start-up Funds Bring Back New Brunswick Researcher

FREDERICTON, NB – The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) today announced an investment of $126,526 for the laboratory equipment and rese...
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Prescription technology MedRunner gets $100,000 boost

Prescription technology MedRunner gets $100,000 boost

By Quentin Casey – The Telegraph Journal | Link to original article Todd Murphy doesn't try to hide the lofty objective behind his Saint Joh...
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NBIF Funds Eight New Research Positions

NBIF Funds Eight New Research Positions

FREDERICTON (NB) — The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) today announced that it has awarded funding of $485,000 to support the hiring ...
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R&D funds designed to bring Encore to commercialization stage

R&D funds designed to bring Encore to commercialization stage

By Nicole Visschedyk – Telegraph Journal | link to original article SAINT JOHN – A local software development company will use a $247,000 ...
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The story of NBIF portfolio company Advanced Publishing on CBC Radio One – LISTEN

The story of NBIF portfolio company Advanced Publishing on CBC Radio One – LISTEN

CBC Radio One SHIFT Janice MacPherson tells the story of online magazine publishing solution provider Advanced Publishing Corporation, and its founder...
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NBIF portfolio company Radian6 tells Wall Street Journal who’s winning the World Cup online – Nike

NBIF portfolio company Radian6 tells Wall Street Journal who’s winning the World Cup online – Nike

By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries – Wall Street Journal | link to original article The real games at the World Cup might be on the soccer field—or...
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NBIF Researcher Thierry Chopin on the future of farming in the water CBC Quirks and Quarks – LISTEN

NBIF Researcher Thierry Chopin on the future of farming in the water CBC Quirks and Quarks – LISTEN

Researchers are looking for solutions to the technical problems associated with aquaculture, but society is ultimately going to have to decide just wh...
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Mount Allison professor tells Globe & Mail how NBIF’s Breakthru competition gets results

Mount Allison professor tells Globe & Mail how NBIF’s Breakthru competition gets results

By Nauman Farooqi, Special to Globe and Mail | link to original article THE CHALLENGE The advent of the knowledge-based economy has created immense op...
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