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Answer Your Social Phone

Millions of blog posts. Viral videos. Reviews in forums. Status updates. All social media conversations, all happening online right now, affect brands, reputations, sales, you name it. Radian6 lets brands listen in, and they've captured the world.
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Cutting Carbon

Natural gas is basically carbon and hydrogen stuck together. When it’s burned it releases carbon dioxide that’s harmful to the atmosphere. What if you could take some of the carbon out before it’s burned? That’s what Atlantic Hydrogen does with their CarbonSaver technology.
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A Doctor AnyWare

A medical emergency can happen at any time. And when your life is on the line, getting access to patient data and diagnostic images is critical. But what happens if the doctor you need is in another city? On a conference? On vacation?
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Omega-3 Vs. Disease

One of the richest sources of Omega-3 is codfish. But getting it from cod just isn’t sustainable anymore. So Dr. Marc Surette at the Université de Moncton found a way to get it from plants that can be grown right here in New Brunswick.
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Potatoes, Plastics & Power

Wouldn’t it be great if we could dissolve our plastic bottles when we’re done with them? New Brunswick Community College Instructor Kevin Shiell knows how. He makes plastic bottles from potato waste that disintegrate in your compost in less than six months.
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Future Fish

Most of the fish you eat today comes from fish farms. But what happens if those fish escape and reproduce in the wild? Not good. Dr. Tillmann Benfey has eliminated that threat with a way to reproduce farm fish so they're sterile. If they do escape, they can't mate.
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NBIF Launches $100,000 Innovation Challenge

January 10, 2012

Open to New Brunswick-based companies, the two with the most innovative and commercially-viable ideas will each receive $50,000 worth of research and development services at a New Brunswick post-secondary institution or research organization. To sustain...

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NBIF nets $9.2M on $382M sale

NBIF Chair Robert Hatheway explains what the return on investment from the Radian6 sale means for NBIF and New Brunswick.

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NBIF Invests in Spinzo

NBIF's venture capital investment of $100,000 in Spinzo Corporation will change the way groups buy online...

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About our VC Funding

2010-2011 Annual Report

Our investments in innovations are increasingly closing the gap between research and enterprise. Fiscal year 2010-11 ended with exciting news that...

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Innovation: a process through which economic value is extracted from knowledge through the generation, development and implementation of ideas to produce new or improved products, processes and services. - The Conference Board of Canada

Answer Your Social Phone

Cutting Carbon

A Doctor AnyWare

Omega-3 Vs. Disease

Potatoes, Plastics & Power

Future Fish

NBIF Launches $100,000 Innovation Challenge

NBIF nets $9.2M on $382M sale

NBIF Invests in Spinzo

2010-2011 Annual Report