Ignite: Sparking Innovation From New Brunswick to the World

“Fredericton has a bias for ‘yes’ when it comes to innovation,” says the energetic Larry Shaw, CEO of Ignite and Knowledge Park.

Welcome to one of North America’s “smartest” cities, where businesses and industries rush to create, invent, adapt, incubate and export technological goods and services at a blistering pace—more than $1 billion in start-up exits in the past decade alone. Host to four universities, six training colleges, 2,800 highly qualified graduates a year, and one of the most loyal and driven workforces in Canada, Fredericton has been recognized as one of the Intelligent Community Forum’s Smart21 Communities of the Year, the past three years running (2020, 2021, and 2022). As a major learning hub for New Brunswick that’s also home to 70 per cent of the province’s knowledge-based industries, it’s a place that fDI magazine recognizes as the “#1 Micro-City in North America.”

Read the full article from Atlantic Business Magazine here.