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Gene patent debate in Australia – into injury time?
Wednesday, 29 February 2012, 10:54 am | sticK
The opponents of gene patents in Australia are a determined lot. Having failed in their attempts to persuade senators (twice) and an advisory committee that gene patents should be banned - they are continuing with their case in the Australian courts. More >>
Academic swot and study…..simplified
Tuesday, 28 February 2012, 11:34 am | sticK
It’s not the first time that Dunedinite Rodney Tamblyn has been involved in an internet-based business. But, as he looks to take his team’s web application for on-line academic study to the global market, he is looking for a different name to ... More >>
The Vikings changed culture as well as institutions
Thursday, 23 February 2012, 8:52 am | sticK
Help…. the Viking’s coming; at least Knud Erik Hilding-Hamann was at the Ministry of Science & Innovation. More >>
Better to have tried, than died wondering – AATS calls it qu
Tuesday, 21 February 2012, 9:18 am | sticK
You’ve got to admire a business when it realises its time to pull the pin, cash in its chips, decide enough’s enough, or whatever other term to describe shutting shop. More >>
Do patents really have nothing to do with innovation?
Thursday, 16 February 2012, 8:29 am | sticK
As Stephen Joyce, the new minister both of science and innovation and economic development gets to grips with his new portfolios, he should be addressing the disconnect between the innovation policy and the patent policy of both the current National and the ... More >>
Europe’s big picture research funding backs individual
Tuesday, 14 February 2012, 9:02 am | sticK
New Zealand’s newly morphing science & innovation policy will have to be kiwi-centric. It is not geographically, economically or culturally feasible to wholesale adopt what’s worked in other countries and jury-rig it for us. More >>
Minister Joyce has the opportunity to redefine ‘failure’
Thursday, 9 February 2012, 9:31 am | sticK
Apparently, new super minister Stephen Joyce (Minister of Science & Innovation, Economic Development and Tertiary Education, Skills & Employment), likes to dive deep into details of a new role or portfolio, before surfacing with a strategic direction. More >>
NZ research gets a showcase portal……..at last
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, 9:01 am | sticK
It’s good to see that, at last, some of the ideas and intellectual property residing in many of our universities and CRI’s has a bit of a showcase. More >>
A cracker trap minds its own business
Thursday, 2 February 2012, 9:00 am | sticK
The guys at goodnature have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars making and perfecting their resetting and toxin free pest trap since establishing in 2005. More >>
Creating software for the cloud, company gets all 'temporal'
Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 8:53 am | sticK
Tucked away on Wellington’s waterfront is an unassuming kiwi company bringing us the next generation of design and creation of cloud computing software. More >>
Making a play for one place for everything
Thursday, 26 January 2012, 1:04 pm | sticK
At a time when communication is (in theory) easier than ever, the overwhelming number of ways to connect means checking them all out can be a full-time job. More >>
Kiwis have to learn to identify and kill bad ideas
Tuesday, 24 January 2012, 8:56 am | sticK
An unwillingness to rigorously evaluate and kill weak ideas is but one indication that many New Zealand companies don’t fully understand the role of design in taking products and services to market. More >>
Innovation’s not easy…and there’s other ways to get value
Thursday, 19 January 2012, 8:59 am | sticK
According to a couple of intellectual property commercialisation experts doing a mini road trip late last year; a) we’re doing it completely wrong, and b) realise that patents can be sold and/or licensed. More >>
Gluckman tells Auckland to get cracking
Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 8:57 am | sticK
In giving a push/shove as Auckland as an innovation or knowledge city, chief science advisor Sir Peter Gluckman reckons the country could expect area like industrial design and digital and media research to have a high presence. More >>
Labour lobs science and innovation agenda at National
Thursday, 22 December 2011, 8:49 am | sticK
Among the (little) talk of Labour’s shadow cabinet line-up, one small fact’s escaped general notice. New Opposition leader David Shearer has retained the Science & Innovation portfolio. More >>
Take a bow biosciences
Tuesday, 20 December 2011, 8:41 am | sticK
A wee while back sticK reported how high tech companies should skite more. The same can be said for our biological industries (which are also of course high tech). More >>
Ahoy me hearties; an offshore way around the Green Card?
Thursday, 15 December 2011, 9:11 am | sticK
Partly because they were cheeky enough to ask, and partly because it is such a wild idea, here’s a plug for would-be entrepreneurial pirates. More >>
Stalking horse comments on innovative Auckland – Gluckman
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 8:34 am | sticK
There’s a certain amount of stalking horse-ishness to Sir Peter Gluckman’s recent ‘Auckland conversation’ (formerly known as Mayoral Conversations; speakers of repute). More >>
Betting puts peoples’ money where their mouth is
Thursday, 8 December 2011, 8:35 am | sticK
Betting on likelihood of future events puts peoples’ money where their mouth is By Peter Kerr for sticK More >>
Testing business helps prove products’ promises
Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 8:40 am | sticK
One way to test the properties of a biological product, such as a honey or native plant extract, is to feed it to an animal or human and measure (hopefully) the results. More >>
