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Land and forest owners should look beyond the log
Monday, 7 March 2011, 8:57 am | sticK
Foresters in general and farm foresters in particular have a much more valuable resource than just the logs or lumber. More >>
Cracking higher end online education learning
Friday, 4 March 2011, 8:57 am | sticK
Many, if not most, online learning platforms are simply content plonked up on a site, from which students try to take notes and cut and paste. More >>
Bioenergy is currently too much like an "enthusiasts club"
Thursday, 3 March 2011, 9:00 am | sticK
The public's not hearing about the bioenergy market, it's rare to see commercialisation thinking around it and the sector's more like an enthusiasts club. More >>
Viclink to get a lean makeover
Wednesday, 2 March 2011, 8:54 am | sticK
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. More >>
Learning geared for the web age - OceanBrowser sails on
Tuesday, 1 March 2011, 8:56 am | sticK
New Zealand needs to wake up to bioenergy's potential
Monday, 28 February 2011, 8:51 am | sticK
Because our brains are controlled by history and habit we tend to think about things the way we thought about them yesterday. More >>
The connection between innovation and football
Friday, 25 February 2011, 9:25 am | sticK
There's no connect between football, as in soccer, and innovation - right? More >>
The business of learning about business a state of mind
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 9:15 am | sticK
Angels comes out with some 'New Year's revolutions'
Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 9:26 am | sticK
LanzaTech keeps gearing up and seeks CO2 conversion
Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 9:31 am | sticK
It's not difficult to be a fan of LanzaTech, the Kiwi company that uses proprietary bacteria to convert smoke stack waste gases into useful products such as ethanol. More >>
Helping people help themselves - a start up's new mind space
Monday, 21 February 2011, 8:57 am | sticK
There's money in stress, or at least in helping people deal with it. That's the business plan of eight month old Wellington start-up company Umbrella Health and Resilience, whose workplace oriented training package is set to expand into Australia and Britain. More >>
Natural, sleep-enhancing product's story a great yawn
Friday, 18 February 2011, 8:53 am | sticK
The almost instant sell-out of New Image Group's sleep-enhancing milk product in Taiwan late last year might at first glance be considered a bit of a fluke. More >>
China's second wives, and its luxury goods culture
Thursday, 17 February 2011, 9:53 am | sticK
From the perspective of 'I didn't know that', and what will I write about today, a minor re-write of a Canvas8 report More >>
Here's one way to make New Zealand a visibly 'smarter' place
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 9:54 am | sticK
Over the past decade the number of R&D staff transferring into New Zealand's private sector has reduced according to IPENZ. More >>
Where's our middle ground between laboratory and large scale
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 9:32 am | sticK
There's a bit of a scale-up conundrum in New Zealand for people wanting to produce value-added bioactive products from a biological base. More >>
Let's make IRL an engine for private sector R&D expertise
Monday, 14 February 2011, 9:10 am | sticK
Industrial Research Ltd. should be changed to an innovation development agency reckons IPENZ. More >>
End game was the start point for sleep enhancing drink
Friday, 11 February 2011, 9:05 am | sticK
Before Somnaceutics Ltd., the original developer of a milk-based sleep enhancer, carried out clinical trials in 2007, its founding scientists looked at a whole group of milk peptides and their bioactive properties. More >>
Stop producing middling business graduates, turn on the tech
Thursday, 10 February 2011, 9:10 am | sticK
The fact we produce a high proportion of business graduates, most only studying general skills, and relatively few technical graduates is one reason for our country's poor innovation performance according to IPENZ. More >>
Crank up private sector R&D to boost wealth say engineers
Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 9:00 am | sticK
Instead of looking at perceived gaps in New Zealand's innovation ecosystem our engineering professional body's asked what the country could do with an extra $500 million. More >>
Carbonscape's global expansion will take place, but where?
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 9:04 am | sticK
Having proved its microwave method of producing charcoal is feasible, Carbonscape's now looking for the right investors to globally expand. More >>
