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Scientist for a Day stirs the innovation pot
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 8:54 am | sticK
There’s a real need to crank up the amount of innovative thinking that goes on in existing businesses. More >>
LanzaTech continues its wild tiger ride
Thursday, 30 June 2011, 9:25 am | sticK
The Auckland-based, globally-oriented LanzaTech doesn't miss a trick when it come to publicity as it hugely increases the explosive growth of its gas fermentation technology. More >>
The right type of engineer crucial for design success
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 9:08 am | sticK
Finding the right type of product design engineer is about as easy as finding hen's teeth for Hamilton-based animal pharmaceutical delivery company, Simcro. More >>
Valuing early-stage companies an art rather than a science
Thursday, 23 June 2011, 9:30 am | sticK
'Too soon to tell' is one of the main conclusions of a NZ Venture Investment Fund research report about the valuation of early-stage kiwi investments. More >>
Agricultural commodity boom no good for branding
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 9:21 am | sticK
There is one downside from New Zealand agriculture and our economic future from the recent (and its appears ongoing) surge in primary products prices. More >>
Separate research institute will complement Atlantis' model
Thursday, 16 June 2011, 9:40 am | sticK
( sticK - 16 June 2011 ) A bit of a plug for Atlantis Healthcare, and more particularly, a clever initiative it is about to unveil. More >>
Life's a gas as LanzaTech picks up an engineering partner
Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 9:29 am | sticK
Auckland-based, globally oriented clean tech company LanzaTech seems to have partnered up with a very useful collaborator for the next stage of its growth. More >>
Thinking about (other peoples') thinking basis of business
Thursday, 9 June 2011, 9:20 am | sticK
Give it some thought, and you’d have to say that thinking is the ultimate weightless export. More >>
Microwaved charcoal technology gets thumbs up from writer
Tuesday, 7 June 2011, 9:29 am | sticK
There's nothing quite as pleasing as someone else mentioning you in their book - so Blenheim-based CarbonScape must have a grin from ear to ear at the moment. More >>
Design-led company needs a bigger trophy cabinet
Thursday, 2 June 2011, 9:33 am | sticK
Waikato-based agritech company Simcro's in danger of needing another trophy cabinet in the near future. More >>
What's going on in the world……keeping TABS
Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 3:00 pm | sticK
Not being a digital native, sticK has a fair bit of a challenge keeping up with changes happening in the real and virtual world More >>
Trees and bees the future for our hills?
Thursday, 26 May 2011, 8:55 am | sticK
Trees and bees may become the savior of hilly rural New Zealand…..why? Because down on the farm, or more precisely, way up on the farm, things aren't as rosy as the boom in commodity prices would have people believe. More >>
Hi-tech and creativity aimed at niche/niche a key to future
Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 8:58 am | sticK
Hi-tech and creativity aimed at niche/niche a key to Kiwi future – Paul Callaghan By Peter Kerr for sticK More >>
There's money in manuka honey, and trial aims to increase it
Thursday, 19 May 2011, 8:53 am | sticK
There's plenty of research on why manuka honey's so useful from a medical and human health point of view. More >>
Milk defence mechanism looks for global play
Tuesday, 17 May 2011, 8:52 am | sticK
Considering that a cow's udder is a potential site of invasion for pathogens, it makes sense that nature's provided some defence mechanisms in the milk itself to fight the microorganisms. More >>
Who are you going to call……well, a scientist actually!
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 9:26 am | sticK
From an engagement and getting innovation out into wider business point of view, Industrial Research has been fronting footing it quite a bit in the past 18 months. More >>
NNCCs struggling to launch
Thursday, 5 May 2011, 9:23 am | sticK
As the shampoo commercial says, it won't happen overnight, but it will happen. So it seems is the National Network of Commercialisation Centres - a Ministry of Science and Innovation initiative to leverage this, sometimes thin, expertise in New Zealand. More >>
No such thing as a 'typical' angel investment
Monday, 2 May 2011, 10:00 am | sticK
The tables were turned as angel investors pitched to would-be entrepreneurs at an Unlimited Potential function in Wellington last Thursday. Well over 150 people turned up to here four speakers - and here's a selection of comments from angels who are ... More >>
Who would've thought - a greenstone/wool cloth!
Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 11:29 am | sticK
Wow, here's a wild idea - a wool/jade fabric. And maybe there's been other people who have thought of mixing merino wool with greenstone/pounamu - but Marlborough farmer Richard Bell's been the first to try it. More >>
High-value manufacturing R&D review sure to cause ripples
Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 9:27 am | sticK
The review and report about how R&D can better support NZ's high-value manufacturing and services sector should be made public pretty soon. More >>
