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Tech firms’ continued R&D growth driving economic growth

Auckland – New data from Statistics NZ highlights the continued growth of R&D (research and development) by tech firms, with computer services and scientific and tech services making up 35 percent of all R&D investment. Computer services companies alone invested $586 million

March 4, 2019

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NZ closing the gender gap but tech sector lagging behind

Wellington – New Zealand has risen two places to the seventh most gender equal country in the world to the latest World Economic Forum report on the issue. NZTech director Eva Sherwood says overall New Zealand has closed more than 80 percent of its gender gap for the first time

March 4, 2019

#Skills and talent #Women in Technology

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New Zealand urgently needs a biotech strategy

Auckland – New Zealand urgently needs a biotech strategy because it is critical to the future of the country’s economy, BiotechNZ executive director Zahra Champion says. The global biotechnology market is expected to reach more than $US727 billion within six years, according to a new re

February 27, 2019

#Biotech

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NZTech Inform - Collaboration That’s Good For The World!

There seems to be real momentum developing across New Zealand, as people and organisations collaborate, to help ensure our country is ready to make the most of the digital era. Across the Tech Alliance we are helping prepare future generations for the digital work force, helping startup

February 25, 2019

Media Releases, NZTech News

NZ agritech the big hit at Melbourne’s EvokeAg event (NZ firm wins pitch competition)

Melbourne – Almost 100 Kiwi agritech specialists, entrepreneurs, agribusiness leaders and support agencies have joined 1000 delegates at the international EvokeAg food & farm futures conference in Melbourne this week. Making up almost 10 percent of the attendees at this globally

February 21, 2019

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Be part of Scale-Up New Zealand

In 2019, Callaghan Innovation launches Scale-Up New Zealand, a free online platform with verified information on Aotearoa New Zealand’s vibrant innovation ecosystem. Created from a model that is hugely successful overseas, Scale-Up New Zealand will make it faster and easier for ambitious busi

February 19, 2019

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NZTech Inform – Celebrating tech innovation

Kia ora Readers Last week, I caught up with the NZ Hi-Tech Awards team as we work to integrate the awards as part of the Tech Alliance. The Hi-Tech Awards have been going for many years identifying, recognising and showcasing our best local tech firms. Both finalists and winners have been able t

February 18, 2019

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NZTech Update - Improving digital skills for the future of work

Kia Ora, In January, I was in Hong Kong building connections with their tech sector and investors as there is growing interest in the market from New Zealand tech firms.  With a separate legal system to China, good intellectual property protection and a tough anti-corruption force, Hong Kong provi

February 4, 2019

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NZ to take ownership of a new global agritech initiative

Tauranga – New Zealand is going to take ownership of a new global agritech initiative, AgritechNZ chief executive Peter Wren-Hilton says. Wren-Hilton has just returned from the US where he met a number of key AgritechNZ partners in Farm2050 which was set up to solve the global food challenge. ?

January 30, 2019

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