New Brunswick
New Brunswick’s robust R&D and knowledge assets, coupled with abundant forestry, agriculture, and marine resources, are spawning an innovative bio-industry cluster. A recent inventory of industrial and institutional assets has revealed a cluster with nearly 2,000 highly qualified employees; more than $110 million in economic activity, including $23 million in active projects; 122 patents, 210 products (102 in the pipeline); and substantial non-patent intellectual property, such as plant varieties and fish brood stock. A broadened sector definition which included traditional sectors in the process of developing biosciences operations, revealed twice this level of economic activity.
New Brunswick’s core biosciences assets include:
- 20 biosciences companies;
- 15 public and private research organizations;
- More than 100 academics involved in biosciences disciplines across three universities;
- At least twenty more companies in the process of developing biosciences operations, primarily in the marine, forestry and environmental sectors.
The established and emerging technological platforms include:
In the plant/wood biosciences:
- Green, microbial technologies for management of forest pests (baculoviruses, pheromones), and production of stress resistant trees (using mycorrhiza)
- Advanced propagation technologies for conifers and potatoes
- Productive and novel lines of potatoes and conifers
- Biologically active compounds from indigenous forest species like wild blueberries and eastern yew
- Polymers and composites from wood wastes
In the marine biosciences:
- Accelerated fish selection programs for new species in aquaculture, using traditional and molecular (genomics) technologies
- Novel, green therapies (vaccines, probiotics) for fish health
- Bio-processing technologies for fish wastes
- Biologically active compounds from the bio-processing of shellfish and finfish waste
In the environmental biosciences:
- Advanced engineering for biogas production systems
- Bioremediation technology and services
In the bio-medical sciences:
- Cancer diagnostics
- Biomedical engineering, in particular in relation to prosthetics
- Rapidly expanding capabilities in clinical trials
Bird’s eye view: New Brunswick’s biosciences sector
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