Science and innovation looks to re-set the next 20 years, but where’s industry?
Last week’s conference on ‘Re-setting Science and Innovation for the next 20 years’ had a notable element missing – business. Arranged by the NZ Association of Scientists in collaboration with Victoria...
View ArticleOpen innovation platform’s time has come for New Zealand
There’s an opportunity for an ‘open innovation’ platform in New Zealand, and it could just be the way for companies to cost-effectively solve some of their R&D challenges. The concept’s taken off...
View ArticleThe business of learning about business a state of mind for pyschologist
Any start-up business is a work in progress, an environment where the founder is driving whatever the business sells as well as the business itself. And in spite of the thousands of textbooks written...
View ArticleViclink to get a lean makeover
It’s a challenge that universities around the world grapple with, namely creating and maintaining the best structure to develop good bits of their intellectual property into saleable products....
View ArticleBetting on likelihood of future events puts peoples’ money where their mouth is
Some of the challenges of launching a new, useful and innovative internet based product are apparent in the iPredict.co.nz business. Officially launched in 2008, just before that year’s general...
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