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Callaghan Innovation
New Zealand’s innovation agency
We activate innovation and help businesses grow faster for a better New Zealand.
We partner with ambitious businesses of all sizes, providing a range of innovation and research and development (R&D) services to suit each stage of growth.
Our people – including more than 200 of New Zealand's leading scientists and engineers – empower innovators by connecting people, opportunities and networks, and providing tailored technical solutions, skills and capability development programmes, and grants co-funding.
We also enhance the operation of New Zealand's innovation ecosystem, working closely with government partners, Crown Research Institutes, and other organisations that help increase business investment in R&D and innovation.
We operate across New Zealand from five urban offices and a regional partner network in a further 12 locations.
Callaghan Innovation - Latest News [Page 1]
Callaghan Innovation Makes AI Tools Policy Available
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 11:46 am | Callaghan Innovation
“As this country’s Innovation Agency, we believe it’s important to empower our people to use current and future AI tools appropriately, while supporting other organisations to do the same,” says Callaghan Innovation AI Governance Group Chair, ... More >>
Digging For Treasure: AI Tool To Help Scientists Access Soil Research Under Development
Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 11:29 am | Callaghan Innovation
The AI tool, named SoilInsights, will help Manaaki Whenua scientists seeking to access its extensive digital library of historic soil science research findings by enabling them to ask, and get answers to, research questions from 40 years of unseen soil ... More >>
Callaghan Innovation Supports Development Of First ISO Standard For AI
Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 9:36 am | Callaghan Innovation
“Understanding and applying ISO/IEC 42001:2023 is not just a compliance exercise. It’s crucial to maintaining a competitive edge in this rapidly evolving and transformative technology area,” says Callaghan Innovation Digital and AI Whare Head Sarah Sun. More >>
Connecting Kiwi Cleantech Ventures With Global Opportunities
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 1:43 pm | Callaghan Innovation
The 2024 Cleantech Trek is a New Zealand Cleantech Mission initiative to support innovative Kiwi startups to access the multi-billion-dollar global cleantech market. More >>
GovGPT Pilot Available Publicly For Testing And Validation
Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 9:41 am | Callaghan Innovation
GovGPT aims to provide accurate and referenceable information from a range of Government websites through natural language conversations, to help businesses access the information they need faster, and more easily than through a browser. More >>
Three Innovative New Companies Join Sir Paul Callaghan 100 Report
Thursday, 10 October 2024, 9:59 am | Callaghan Innovation
Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand’s innovation agency, established the report to honour the legacy of Sir Paul Callaghan (1947–2012), one of New Zealand’s most revered scientists and a champion of the commercialisation of science as a key pillar ... More >>
A Decade Of Deep Tech Just The Beginning For Emerging Innovators
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 9:33 am | Callaghan Innovation
The term Deep Tech refers to advanced technologies that are based on significant scientific or engineering innovation. Deep Tech startups are often seeking solutions to complex global challenges, including climate change, food security and disease. More >>
Ārohia Trailblazers Set To Forge Path To Global Markets
Tuesday, 24 September 2024, 10:27 am | Callaghan Innovation
Minister for Science, Innovation and Technology, Judith Collins announced the Ārohia Trailblazer grant recipients at the New Zealand Aerospace Summit today in Christchurch. More >>
Kitmap: Supporting A Thriving Science, Innovation And Technology Sector
Friday, 20 September 2024, 2:03 pm | Callaghan Innovation
Kitmap currently catalogues 260 R&D items of infrastructure, specialised equipment, much of which are found nowhere else, or not easily accessible in this country. More >>
Innovative Kiwi Businesses Unlock Global Opportunities With AI
Monday, 16 September 2024, 3:39 pm | Callaghan Innovation
Designed to boost economic growth and exports via the rapid adoption of AI, the AI Activator is a Callaghan Innovation collaboration with partners NZTE and NIWA. More >>
AI Activator To Support Rapid Adoption Of Transformative AI Technologies
Monday, 16 September 2024, 2:27 am | Callaghan Innovation
The AI Activator is here to support the success of all growth-focused Kiwi businesses, wherever they are on their AI journey. More >>
GovGPT Pilot Promises Faster Access To Government Business Support
Monday, 16 September 2024, 2:27 am | Callaghan Innovation
GovGPT is a first step towards a simple, digital front-door where Kiwis can quickly and easily get answers to their questions about Government support and services. More >>
Pacific Channel Joins Callaghan Innovation Technology Incubator Programme
Tuesday, 11 June 2024, 2:44 pm | Callaghan Innovation
Callaghan Innovation today announced it has appointed specialist Deep Tech venture capital firm Pacific Channel as its newest Deep Tech Incubator Programme partner. More >>
Distinguished Scientist Recognised In King’s Birthday Honours
Monday, 3 June 2024, 10:35 am | Callaghan Innovation
Callaghan Innovation Distinguished Scientist Keith Jones today became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to metrology in the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours. More >>
Three Early Stage Kiwi Cleantech Ventures Make List Of Top 25 In Asia-Pacific
Thursday, 9 May 2024, 12:21 pm | Callaghan Innovation
Geo40, Aspiring Materials and Zincovery are part of the most recent Cleantech APAC25, a list of the 25 startups most likely to make significant market impact over the next five years. More >>
Showcasing World-leading Kiwi Cleantech Innovation To Silicon Valley
Wednesday, 21 February 2024, 9:00 am | Callaghan Innovation
Twelve Kiwi ventures are a step closer to securing partnerships and a slice of around NZ$80 billion invested every year in cleantech startups after returning from Cleantech Trek USA. The globally ambitious Kiwi cleantech ventures connected with corporates ... More >>
Creativity Key To Successful Innovation Says Newly Appointed Chief Scientist
Thursday, 21 September 2023, 11:01 am | Callaghan Innovation
Callaghan Innovation’s first Chief Scientist says both creativity and science excellence are vitally important if Aotearoa is to realise its environmental, social, and economic potential. Andrea Bubendorfer joins Callaghan Innovation’s executive ... More >>
Callaghan Innovation Launches Counselling Service For Startup Founders
Thursday, 7 September 2023, 10:19 am | Callaghan Innovation
Callaghan Innovation has today launched a counselling service to support founders whose mental health is suffering due to the significant pressures associated with establishing and growing a startup. Plans for the service were announced at the Electrify ... More >>
Callaghan Innovation Announces Free Guidance And Counselling To Support Founder Wellbeing
Tuesday, 1 August 2023, 9:32 am | Callaghan Innovation
Callaghan Innovation has today announced plans for new initiatives to support founder wellbeing, including covering the cost of free guidance and counselling for founders. Speaking from the sold out Electrify Aotearoa Conference for Women Founders in Auckland ... More >>
New Grant Boosts World-leading Innovation
Friday, 30 June 2023, 7:45 am | Callaghan Innovation
Applications open today for a new grant set to bolster New Zealand’s innovation landscape and support businesses to take world-leading innovations to market. The Ārohia Innovation Trailblazer Full Grant, administered by Callaghan Innovation, ... More >>
