Callaghan Innovation stories - Page 5

Māori students fly to Silicon Valley to spark tech and innovation dreams, eyeing a future of cutting-edge careers.

A new competition is calling on New Zealand’s top emerging entrepreneurs to submit their ideas for the DigMyIdea Māori Innovation Challenge.

The Technology Innovation National Science Challenge will focus on developing new technologies to create commercially successful breakthrough products.

Wellington-born startup, AREA360, has received $5.5 million investment from a US technology venture group, and is expanding into the American market.

Lightning Lab Manufacturing is the fifth Lightning Lab to run since its inception in 2013, and the first in New Zealand to centre around hardware.

The New Zealand Government has launched a Maori Technology Scholarship to encourage more Maori into the Information Technology sector.

New Zealand video game industry grows, with 134 new jobs created and revenue of $78.7m in FY2015, according to @nzgda.

Up to $1.5 million will be made available to enable 126 businesses to employ students for work experience in New Zealand’s hi-tech sector.

A three-day Lean Startup Methodology conference, the first of its kind in Australasia, will take place in Wellington this October.

The C-Prize involves a competition among drone design teams to come up with a prototype that meets one or more of the challenges set by film makers.

It has been a successful year for Kiwi start-ups involved in Callaghan Innovation’s Technology Incubator Programme.

The Fieldays Innovation Accelerator is a new initiative sponsored by Callaghan Innovation and aims to help Kiwi innovators rise to the global stage.

Steven Joyce, Science and Innovation Minister, has announced an $80 million boost for R&D funding in New Zealand as part of the Budget 2015.

The government will pump an extra $20 million a year into the research and development Growth Grants programme, one of three types of grant administer.

Government-funded Callaghan Innovation has launched a competition with $50,000 up for grabs to develop unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology for th.

American innovation expert Langdon Morris will teach Kiwi companies the secrets of 'agile innovation' at a series of workshops around the country next.

Petromac has developed a disruptive technology that allows oil and gas companies to get better data from wireline logging of oil wells.

Callaghan Innovation, the government backed innovation hub, faced questions this week from opposition MPs about why it had funded companies that subse.

​Emulex Corporation is continuing to invest in New Zealand’s education sector and develop its next generation of engineering talent.

Allowing drones to operate beyond the operator's line of sight could provide economic gains of up to $190 million a year to New Zealand's.