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Archive
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2013
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May
- Software Patents: the Difference between Excluding Computer Programs as Such and Excluding Computer Programs as Such
- Lightning Lab startups ask – ‘where’s the money’?
- One way to crack a coder shortage
- National Science Challenge winners underwhelm
- Email sales tool allows companies to ‘dress to impress’
- April
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March
- Kickstarting a San Fran Bay school science rap promotion
- Callaghan Innovation – building the plane while they fly it
- Little school thinks bearly big
- Creating a deep infrastructure tool and asset for Christchurch – a (relatively) cheap idea well worth NZ Inc considering
- A solution to our lack of shared purpose around a science-innovation strategy
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February
- Getting to grips with multicore’s hugely disruptive technology – an opportunity for NZ Inc
- Wellington Startup Weekend well pitched
- Australian Gene Patent Held Valid: Patent is for Isolated Nucleic Acid, not for Information Per Se
- ‘Foolproof’ writer to study difference between new business intent and reality
- Give up the total DIY for tech start-ups – Clark-Reynolds
- When we name something, our relationship with it changes
- January
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May
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December
- Change by chance, by design or by stealth – Callaghan Innovation’s ‘birth’ far from democratic
- We are the picture that a child draws of a farm
- If Callaghan Innovation is the answer – remind me again what was the question?
- Food & beverage stars for NZ to hitch its wagon to – report
- If we knew what we were inventing when we figured it out…..we would’ve named it
- Some worrying disquiet around Callaghan Innovation
- Agricultural R&D – a fantastic legacy and a means to move forward
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November
- What a problem for ikeGPS…..managing its growth!
- What would responsible pastoralism mean? (A strategic ‘glue’)
- Callaghan Innovation – time for a concrete and practical illustration of its intent
- We all own our agricultural story…..that’s the problem
- Personalised time/place knowledge goal of ThunderMaps
- Come on ATI, tell us what you’re thinking – please!
- What does our agriculture offer?……..romance and reassurance
- Officiating our way to an ATI totally the wrong policy
- Our agriculture’s much more than the sum of its parts
- TIN100 again proves it is the meat of an innovation club sandwich
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October
- The way you’d farm if you farmed yourself
- Let’s accept now that the ATI will find it very difficult to kick off by February next year
- For want of a name our agriculture flounders
- Foolproof market validation tool for those of us who would be fools
- If we imagine beyond the actuality of how we produce….
- Getting to a BLISful state a long and winding road
- Standing for nothing does our agriculture a big non-favour
- New media + books = Literary Angels: friend recommendations set to fly
- Should we bother trying to get consumers closer to farmers?
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September
- ATI Establishment Board role far bigger than most people realise
- The Patents Bill and the Wai 262 Report: two solitudes in search of common ground
- If we think beyond the actuality of how we produce….
- Pastoral method’s lack of a brand/name is the opposite of the ‘tragedy of the commons’
- Patents Bill Second Reading: A Software Storm in an Ideological Teacup
- An angel lines up in books’ corner
- We’re the only protein production system that can say VISIT
- Relationship broking connects the dots between money and markets
- So, tell me why we shouldn’t be global custodians of responsible pastoralism?
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August
- Location-based intelligence industry a hidden NZ gem
- Gunning for better play; Makerspace takes aim at crowdfunding
- A suggestion for the ATI EB…..and a ‘to note’
- US Federal Appeal Court upholds gene Myriad Gene patent after referral from Supreme Court
- Dear ATI Establishment Board,
- ‘White label’ opportunity for number one food app
- “So Makerspace, can you create this?” – workshop eases into existence
- Take that Jamie Oliver! – F,F & T the app-ening thing
- Startup junkie looking to bring weekend experience to Northland
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July
- Startup Weekend leans into NZ version of global entrepreneurship competition
- Market validation – “get outside and ask customers questions”
- ‘Boy’, what a great way to get free publicity
- Roll up, roll up, the ATI’s going to be bigger than Ben Hur
- Why buy when you can hire – special kit gets its own sharing home
- Crowdfunding with a Kiwi flavour suits our tastes – PledgeMe
- An ATI set to fly…..like a turkey
- Maintaining quality edge major focus of axe maker
- The perfect present for someone that has everything? – Golden Mean Calipers
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June
- Know and figure out ‘pain points’ before any commercialisation – KiwiNet
- If we build it, will they come…..MakerSpace takes a punt
- Cutting its way into niche/niche market – Tuatahi
- Web 3.0 + Kiwi IP = connection to the world
- Fantastic; more faffing around for an Advanced Technology Institute
- Kiwi Landing Pad sweetens deal for startups
- Tapping into market knowledge….down at your local library!
- Science gets a rap – Tom McFadden
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May
- Product development….no place for the faint hearted
- One place to access everything digital takes off its training wheels — Unified Inbox
- Venture Solutions operates in commercialisation’s ‘no-man’s-land’
- Gene patents in Australia — an ongoing saga
- Creative space of technology, digital and storytelling tailor-made by Mohawk Media
- ‘Negative know-how’, one way to make money from so-called failure — KiwiNet
- Enspiral’s collective model taking on the world
- Kiwi battery technology charged up on green car opportunities
- ‘Do the deals’ commercialisers told — KiwiNet
- Aquaflow plays its bargaining chips smartly
- ‘Release the hounds’ Mr Joyce — let IRL get on with becoming an ATI
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April
- Startups get a scientific methodology = a simplifying strategy
- Dear David, please give us more than science and innovation platitudes
- Our internet-inspired impatience is only getting worse
- Stop trying to Aucklandise our science and innovation
- Nope, we’re not going to hell in a handcart
- IP ownership change spurs new wool research
- ACC and Ministry of Health: winners in patent battle over computerised healthcare information ‘connectivity’ invention
- Angels, unsurprisingly, belt-tightening
- Developers invited to a northern hemisphere ‘Summer of Code’
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March
- The 7 Deadly Sins get an innovative makeover
- Coarse wool’s new course weaving a different path
- Optimising autoimmune treatment patent invalid: a ‘Law of Nature’ is not a law passed by Congress
- Farming’s unfashionable, but there’s a simple fix to make it sexy
- Healthy challenge in 100 words
- Science & tech docos find a natural home
- The Patents Bill: Please leave it alone until the super ministry is sorted
- Mass customisation really does mean it is all about you
- Give us something simple Steven, and also create an S&I council
- Kiwi conference to get to the core of computing opportunity
- Science embraced: patent policy merits a brief mention
- ‘Facing your fears’ the unspoken part of a start-up — Dave ten Have
- ‘Ordered anarchy’ delivers creative projects at better value
- ‘Ordered anarchy’ delivers creative projects at better value
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February
- Gene patent debate in Australia — into injury time?
- Academic swot and study…..simplified
- The Vikings changed culture as well as institutions
- Do Patents Really Have Nothing to do With Innovation?
- Europe’s big picture research funding backs individual, not institution
- Minister Joyce has the opportunity to redefine ‘failure’
- NZ research gets a showcase portal ….. at last
- A cracker trap minds its own business
- January
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December
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December
- Labour lobs science and innovation agenda at National — watch out Steven Joyce!
- Take a bow biosciences
- Ahoy me hearties; an offshore way around America’s green card requirements?
- Stalking horse comments on innovative Auckland — Gluckman
- Testing business helps prove products’ promises
- Prime Minister as prime innovator — get going on #13
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November
- Startup investment scene in NZ, like the rest of the world, is changing fast
- Report brings facts for the fluffy functional foods and nutraceuticals industries
- Science medal and link to wealth creation a great endeavour
- Technology companies need to skite more
- Ideas aplenty, and some may blossom after Startup Weekend
- Bright Ideas Challenge feels like it’s already permanent
- At last, a kick along for high tech and niche manufacturing
- Time to read fine print of manuka research project specs
- Plastics CoE remolds itself into a Polymer Alliance
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October
- Honey deal not so sweet
- Key man in innovation role?
- A Wellington and Auckland commercialisation hand-holding proposal more than it seems
- Where there’s a wool there’s a way F212 presumes
- Fahrenheit 212 turns up the heat for NZ wool
- Will science and innovation ‘Get Carter’?
- Ag and hort forum tries to get off the farm
- Become an ‘authority’ to maximise the benefits of social media for your business — Sisson
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September
- Internet games follow the numbers and money
- Go digital for dollars — content forum spruiks Kiwi capability
- Agriculture’s ‘failure’ the place to view its next 20 years of success — conference
- Algae conversion partnership precursor to bigger things?
- Nice irony to showcasing Wellington businesses in the Beehive
- Surely it’s not MSI’s job to bankroll a Kiwi Landing Pad in San Francisco?
- A quick marathon to conceive good ideas — ‘Start-up weekend’
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August
- ‘Genetically engineering’ web start-ups one way to overcome gaps in the Kiwi ecosystem
- W(h)ither the high value manufacturing review?
- Free competition to find Transformative Technologies 2011 winner — give LanzaTech a hand
- It’s sort of a pity we seem to have lots of underground hydrocarbons
- Weltec and IRL cozy up in innovative move
- High level ‘innovation’ thinking receives scant attention
- Nano tech fabricated into new use
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May
- Trees and bees the future for our hills?
- Hi-tech and creativity aimed at niche/niche a key to Kiwi future — Paul Callaghan
- There’s money in manuka honey, and trial aims to greatly increase it
- Milk defence mechanism looks for global play
- Who are you going to call……well, a scientist actually!
- National Network of Commercialisation Centres struggling to launch
- No such thing as a ‘typical’ angel investment
- April
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March
- Professor opts out of probiotic commercialisation route to concentrate on research
- Are there some new products in the pipeline as business manufacturing increases its R&D spend?
- Kiwi angel investors pony up with more money in 2010
- Random points of interest from NZBio, two
- Random points of interest from NZBio
- NZ V.C. industry needs more money
- Who keeps a real eye on the ‘space’ beyond R&D
- Americans call it experience, not failure
- Key’s only sharp arrow — as Minister of S&I
- New U.S. universities V.C. fund a model for New Zealand?
- John Key should play the one card he has up his sleeve ……Minister of Innovation and Science
- Quick high-tech sector review a precursor to R&D changes?
- Land and forest owners should look beyond the log
- NZ bioenergy is currently too much like an ‘enthusiasts club’
- Viclink to get a lean makeover
- Learning geared for the web age — OceanBrowser sails to the world
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February
- New Zealand needs to wake up to bioenergy’s potential
- The connection between innovation and football — they both require balls
- The business of learning about business a state of mind for pyschologist
- Angel Association comes out with some ‘New Year’s revolutions’
- LanzaTech keeps gearing up and seeks the holy grail of CO2 conversion
- Helping people help themselves — a start up enters a new mind space
- Natural, sleep-enhancing product’s story a great yawn
- China’s second wives, and its luxury goods culture — a couple of surprises
- Here’s one way to make New Zealand a visibly ‘smarter’ place
- Where’s our middle ground between laboratory and large scale?
- Let’s make IRL an engine for private sector R&D expertise creation says IPENZ
- End game was the start point for sleep enhancing drink
- Stop producing middling business graduates, turn on the tech tap (IPENZ)
- Crank up private sector R&D to boost country’s wealth say engineers
- Carbonscape’s global expansion will take place, but will New Zealand invest in its development?
- Wool to give itself the once over and create a market-pull future
- Scaling up workshop to hear ‘war stories’, provide conversation spaces
- Proving the microwave charcoal technology the easy part…….now to sell it
- Enough good news……you’ve had your quota LanzaTech!
- New course commercialises commercialisation (Lincoln and Canterbury Universities)
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January
- High cost Germany shows how to succeed in exporting
- New Zealand needs one place for everything innovative — NZ Institute
- Story marketplace makes its play in internet-dominated media space (allaboutthestory)
- In a world of generic websites, bespoke solutions often a better deal
- Where’s there’s a wool there’s a way — $17.25m kickstart for renewed research
- Being shown the money, MusicHype heads to America to make its play
- ShowGizmo to take expo app to smart phone world
- Potato supply threat turned into crisp opportunity
- LanzaTech’s clean technology ticks all the right boxes for rapid global growth
- Is social enterprise about to come out from the shadows?
- Diverse ‘T-shaped’ staff skills essential for user experience design company
- Defence research to get the once over
- New Zealand’s has an inbuilt design culture — well, maybe
- MSI’s Science Board to oversee broader research platforms
- New Innovation Board has its work cut out
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December
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December
- Agile methodology seems to suit kiwi psyche
- Time for BIS2 to stop flying under the radar
- Kiwi culture to ‘look under the IT hood’ provides an overseas opportunity
- Wellington start-up MusicHype scales up at world’s largest digital media conference
- Kiwi praetorian guards Google’s global network
- Super graphics make sense of a sea of data — (BIS2)
- (John)Key timing for Innovation Council?
- Bands and fans connect and interact through start-up’s ‘Appreciation Engine’ — (MusicHype)
- Who are you going to call first — the information clearinghouse? (NZ Institute)
- Keeping TABS so valuable, sticK’s forced to give it a plug
- Plugging a gap in the innovation ecosystem — NNCCs
- Third generation technology incubators cooking up better start ups
- You Tube but one example of collaboration around increased sharing of knowledge — OECD
- The case for Ultra Fast Broadband’s still to be justified
- ‘Inside Innovation’ recognises that we’ve got a lot of work to do
- ‘IT ethics’ is no oxymoronic conversation
- MED can’t kill kiwi technology incubators
- Full fuel fooling aim of food research co-investment programme (Plant & Food)
- ‘Plugging the gap’, thankfully, doesn’t just state the problems, but delivers some answers
- Safe vaccine gun picks up the design equivalent of an Olympic gold medal — (Simcro)
- Avoiding the quarter-life crisis……parents, guide your children well
- Farmers walk the talk, taking their own wool from a sheep to person’s back
- Can we, and how do we ‘supe up’ our innovation ecosystem? — (The NZ Institute)
- CRIs account for their income and spending and all that jazz (Statistics NZ)
- Extremely important issues for NZ; but who will come to the debate?
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November
- NZ’s largest single VC recipient picks up another international prize (Atlantis Healthcare)
- Cancer detection commercialisation could never be an ‘overnight’ happening
- ‘Really chuffed’ science prize winners to look for complementary skills
- Have a beek at this — giving tourists a flavour of somewhere they’ve never been before they decide to visit
- …..and the winners are (P.M’s Science Prize recipients announced)
- Have money…..will take on the world, 77 Pieces at a time
- Mass customisation and Wellington’s culture — a marriage made in heaven?
- Weightless export succeeds in crowded internet domain name space — (iWantMyName)
- Wellington’s (bad?) weather not the main reason for its IT entrepreneurship
- 2-D to 3-D and back again — making virtual real (77 Pieces)
- Sustainability’s like ‘beauty’ — go on, try and define it
- Are CRI statements of core purpose customer-oriented enough — NZ Institute?
- Surely it’s too late to try to shove the Ka Mate genie back in any kind of intellectual property bottle
- Kiwi agribusinesses better be careful not to foot trip over ‘sustainability’ — KPMG report
- Getting the science sector to fly in formation can only be good
- Entrepreneurs’ Challenge winners all have a biological look about them — how can that be?
- ‘Sustainable revolution’ could leave kiwi agribusiness behind — KPMG report
- Proposals to virtually link commercialisation centres expected before Christmas
- Now we have a better idea of the CRIs’ reason for being …… maybe
- Developing a business will ‘always cost you double what you think’ — Piako Gourmet Yoghurt
- Here’s hoping that a damn good idea isn’t forced offshore
- Open innovation platform’s time has come for New Zealand
- Commercialisation network has some challenges to overcome
- High tech manufacturing challenging in the NZ environment
- Superior yoghurt creates new sector and basis of Piako’s business
- Without collaboration, world dairy industry couldn’t compete or innovate properly
- R&D spend by the world’s top companies falls as global recession hits
- Size not relevant — customer service is what counts
- Our culture’s deeply embedded, but we can overcome our weaknesses
- Biological control gets around insect resistance, set to take on the world
- We need more bang from our science buck says Treasury
- Cloud operation provides ‘one truth’ for procurement
- Brave angels leave sharemarket in their wake
- The word innovation has little meaning
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December
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2013
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