http://www.nbif.ca/ en info@nbif.ca Copyright 2012 2012-01-31T17:38:10+00:00 http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/nbif-investment-to-change-the-way-we-buy-online/ http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/nbif-investment-to-change-the-way-we-buy-online/ The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation today announced a $100,000 venture capital investment in Saint John-based start-up company Spinzo Corporation. Spinzo has developed a new, online group-based buying and selling platform consumers and merchants. 2012-01-31T17:38:10+00:00 http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/spinzo-links-merchants-with-bargain-shoppers/ http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/spinzo-links-merchants-with-bargain-shoppers/ He has raised more than $100,000 for Spinzo from private investors and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. 2012-01-30T13:33:25+00:00 http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/nbif-and-growthworks-co-invest/ http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/nbif-and-growthworks-co-invest/ Gerry Pond, a local leader in supporting and investing in entrepreneurship in the province, and Calvin Milbury, president and CEO of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, also attended the announcement. Pond, Bob Justason and the NBIF all provided additional funding to Spinzo and have previously invested in the other two companies as well. 2012-01-26T12:40:22+00:00 http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/competition-encourages-innovation-telegraph-journal-reports/ http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/competition-encourages-innovation-telegraph-journal-reports/ The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation plans to help bridge the gap between private sector businesses and public research institutions by launching a competition that calls on New Brunswick-based companies to bring forward innovative and commercially-viable ideas. 2012-01-10T16:06:28+00:00 http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/nbif-launches-100000-r3-innovation-challenge/ http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/nbif-launches-100000-r3-innovation-challenge/ 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 competitiveness, companies need to test their ideas by conducting research and development.  But in most cases, small to medium-sized companies don’t have the time, expertise and facilities to fully develop their ideas into innovations. 2012-01-10T15:21:59+00:00 http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/zaptap-hoping-to-become-leader-in-2012/ http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/zaptap-hoping-to-become-leader-in-2012/ Launched in June 2010, Zaptap uses special codes to trigger product information on smart phones. 2011-12-27T15:06:38+00:00 http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/entrepreneur-puts-faith-in-gingle/ http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/entrepreneur-puts-faith-in-gingle/ Gingle, which is free to download, enables its users to stream video and audio directly from one iPhone to another. 2011-12-20T17:01:40+00:00 http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/new-funding-for-research-assistants-and-technicians/ http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/new-funding-for-research-assistants-and-technicians/ Designed to increase research capacity and productivity, the RAI allows researchers to pay students up to $10,000 to work part time in their lab. Alternatively, the RTI gives researchers up to $75,000, over three years, to help create a new full time research position. RTI recipients are most often PhD trained researchers. 2011-12-09T13:14:11+00:00 http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/possible-uses-for-organic-polymer-plentiful/ http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/possible-uses-for-organic-polymer-plentiful/ When CEO Nauman Farooqi lists the applications for ChemGreen Innovation Inc.'s product, some sound more like technology Q, James Bond's gadgetry whiz, would have whipped up rather than innovation from a Mount Allison University laboratory. 2011-11-28T14:58:21+00:00 http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/tech-startup-trapster-offers-technology-to-track-catches-on-the-water/ http://www.nbif.ca/eng/media/releases/tech-startup-trapster-offers-technology-to-track-catches-on-the-water/ Trapster Inc. is bringing innovation to the lobster fishery, a centuries-old industry better known for experienced knowledge and tradition. 2011-11-23T13:26:31+00:00