Building a Solid Practice for Practitioners
Nov 9 @ the Crowne Plaza Fredericton

Fredericton Cybersocial
Nov 17 @ James Joyce

Enterprise Fredericton Christmas Open House
Dec 9 @ Enterprise Fredericton

Business Basics
Nov 23 @ Enterprise Fredericton

• Continued Growth at
      the Knowledge Park
  
  
• Message from the Chair
  
  
• Fredericton’s Value Proposition
  
  
• Regional Employment Stats
  
  
• Fredericton Business Health
  
  

Continued Growth at the Knowledge Park

 Two recent announcements, one by CAE and the other by Research In Motion (RIM) spell good news for the Fredericton region. The two industry leading companies recently confirmed that they will be setting up operations in the Knowledge Park. This means that the park will be expanding to include two additional buildings, 45,000 sq. ft. each, doubling the Park’s current square footage to 180,000 sq. ft. and bringing the total number of buildings to five.

Knowledge Park already has a substantial impact on the Fredericton region and the recent announcements set the stage for future economic growth of high tech companies. In essence, a community fostering R&D, innovation and commercialization is being... Read more.

Photo of the new building construction at the Knowledge Park.

Message from the Chair

By Susanne Alexander, Chair of Enterprise Fredericton

Fredericton is an intriguing city – and when combined with Oromocto, New Maryland, Lincoln, St. Mary’s, it’s all the more appealing.

We are both rural and urban; we work with our minds and our hands; we combine traditional technologies of past decades and past centuries with some of the most contemporary forms.

Some people consider the Greater Fredericton to be the centre of the universe, because of a singular, yet very strange phenomenon: no matter where you go, you will most likely encounter someone who has a connection to this city.

Our population is increasingly diverse, multi-lingual, and growing. Two decades ago, the biggest challenge for publishers located here was to find French-language editors.

Today, we employ editors who have knowledge of Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish as well as English and French. Our residents are highly educated and highly skilled. We have an abundance of right brain and left brain thinkers, and institutions that allow them to... Read more.