Callaghan Innovation stories

Participants will be connected with local startup hubs and accelerator programmes for follow-on assistance and investment.

New Zealand launches national strategy to boost robotics and automation sector, set to replace up to 46% of jobs by 2040.

Activity is picking up for many Kiwi software and digital businesses as demand increases for digital and cloud-based service offerings.

New Zealand's Callaghan Innovation and Hutt Science hosted female students in science and technology to tackle the industry's gender imbalance.

Callaghan Innovation’s Vic Crone announced the new programmes this week, which are designed to help turn tech and science into successful businesses.

Micromaker3D creates detailed submillimetre structures for applications such as sensors, wearables, point-of-care diagnostics, and micro-robotics.

Eight New Zealand start-ups will be selected to join the six-month accelerator, which provides business coaching, mentoring, network access and courses.

Kiwi startups to shine at TechCrunch Disrupt in the US, with ecentre's NZ Pavilion highlighting local innovation.

Callaghan Innovation says that New Zealand businesses still have time to snap up valuable R&D talent before the window of opportunity closes on September 6.

Successful incubators will help to develop technical and scientific research in New Zealand, and ensure technology translates to successful commercial outcomes.

Callaghan Innovation appoints Michael Murphy as group manager for business acceleration and start up unit.

‘Hundreds’ of New Zealand companies have the chance to recruit new skills and fresh thinking into their businesses.

Ultimately the key to ongoing success in this fast-moving arena is speed. Of course, there are many common pitfalls with software development and delivery that make this difficult.

The Zero Carbon Challenge is a programme bringing together business, social enterprise, and local government to promote the low carbon economy.

New Zealand ‘unicorns’ behind some of New Zealand’s most successful innovation businesses like Rocket Lab, Xero, and LanzaTech have helped to create more than $34 billion in value to the country.

Callaghan Innovation has awarded Auckland-based SaaS business Crossware up to $5m per year in grant funding to support its global expansion.

Callaghan Innovation is welcoming property mogul Angela Bull and the reappointment of tech futurist Frances Valintine and to its board this week.

Māori representation in record numbers at New Zealander of the Year Awards signals milestone moment.

Callaghan Innovation has awarded a $318,000 R&D grant to Auckland-based firm SingleSource, a company that applies risk scoring to digital identity.

Imagine 3D printing things thinner and smaller than a human hair, and how they could be used in everything from sensors, electronics, wearables and meshes.

Callaghan Innovation has placed $330,000 into a local cryptocurrency savings and trading startup now called Vimba.

New Zealand's tech sector gathers at the Southern SaaS event in Auckland to focus on achieving faster and smarter growth.

Thirty of New Zealand’s agritech innovators have finally landed in Silicon Valley this week as they get ready to put their innovations to the test.

New Zealand can capitalize on its reputation as a global agritech hotspot to boost its own sector, says Callaghan Innovation.