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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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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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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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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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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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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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NBIF Funds Eight New Research Positions

August 23, 2010

NBIF today announced that it has awarded funding of $485,000 to support the hiring of eight new professional researchers at five institutions under its Research Technicians Initiative. Jointly offered by the Foundation and the New Brunswick Department of Post-Secondary...

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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

Potatoes, Plastics & Power

A Doctor AnyWare

Future Fish

Cutting Carbon

Answer Your Social Phone

Omega-3 Vs. Disease

NBIF Funds Eight New Research Positions

Portfolio & Research News

NBIF Twitter Feed