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Indigenous Innovative Fiery Foods Festival

Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI) Centre for Enterprise Development (CED) held its first Indigenous Innovative Fiery Foods Festival on the 25 April 2015, Ato Boldon…

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Idea To Innovation (i2i) Exhibition

On March 17, twenty-six  beneficiaries of the i2i (Idea to Innovation)  Programme exhibited their projects at CARIRI’s Centre for Enterprise Development (CED) in Freeport. This…

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Idea 2 Innovation (i2i) Programme

The Ministry of Planning and Sustainable Developmentthrough its established Council for Competitiveness and Innovation (CCI) developed the “Idea 2 Innovation” (i2i) programme which gives an…

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Getting your Idea to Market

Before you spend a lot of time creating a product or service, it is important to know whether anyone will want to buy it and if there is a need for it. The first step therefore to getting your product to market is conducting market research. Do products that are similar to your idea exist?…

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Corrosion: A Dangerous Phenomenon

Many times we have heard phrases like “nothing can be done against corrosion”, or “just give it a touch up”. While it is true that corrosion is a natural phenomenon and happens naturally, we don’t have to live with it, and much less ignore it by small touch-up painting to mitigate the signs of rust.…

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CARIRI’s Centre for Enterprise Development (CED): A Central Node in the Innovation Ecosystem

Established in 1970 with technical and financial assistance from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI), which is a State-owned entity, has developed a reputation in the region as a multifaceted Institution providing services in the areas of Laboratory and Field Testing, Consulting,…

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Failure Analysis: An Investigative Process

Failure Analysis is the process of using analytical laboratory techniques, expert scientific interpretations, and failure mode analysis to identify the root cause of a failure in a part, assembly, material, or system.  A failure could arise not only as a broken component, but also includes rejected parts from a manufacturing line, lack of performance of an…

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