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Category Archives: Innovation
National Science Challenge winners underwhelm
There’s only one word really to describe the winners of the National Science Challenge – ‘wow’ writ small. Or, perhaps it is just me that is completely underwhelmed by the announcement of 10 research areas that can comfortably be binned … Continue reading
Problemsourcing initiative gets the academic once-over
Open innovation and crowdsourcing are two relatively recent ways of finding solutions to (often) technical challenges experienced by companies. There’s particular issues which need resolving when using the power of the crowd; along with the hope that someone has a … Continue reading
The Power of Un-Location gets an airing
Toby Ruckert of Unified Inbox had an interesting blog recently – demonstrating what he has called the Power of Un-Location. (sticK had a blog on an earlier version of Unified Inbox here.) For a brief period while in Shanghai, he … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing, Entrepreneur, Innovation, IT, SciBlogs, sustainability, technology
Tagged disconnecting, Toby Ruckert, Unified Inbox
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Lightning Labs shows off its first flowers of startup blooming
Lightning Labs, a lean startup hub of selected neophyte companies located for three months on Wellington’s The Terrace, gave a ‘where we’re at, what we’ve learned’ quickfire talks recently. The fullhouse (dozens on the waiting list), heard how the nine … Continue reading
Posted in Angel investment, Development, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, IT, Market validation, SciBlogs, start-up, technology
Tagged Lightning Labs
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Adding a hole lot of value to a piece of pine
We all know that we’d prefer to export more than just a log of pine to overseas markets. At the same time, the NZ Inc desire to add value to our raw commodities such as trees is almost tiresome through … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, proprietary, SciBlogs, sustainability, technology
Tagged John Reelick, multipole, TTT Products
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Dyed in the wool innovation partners up to go global
The time it takes to convert a good idea into something that another person’s willing to buy is almost invariably longer than you think. A couple of years ago, sticK reported on BGI Developments’ winning the right to commercialise AgResearch’s … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, SciBlogs, sustainability, technology
Tagged agresearch, BGI, Robyn George-Neich
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Kickstarting a San Fran Bay school science rap promotion
You obviously can’t keep a science rapper down. Tom McFadden, a Californian and Stanford biology lecturer among other things, completed a Masters in Science Communication at Otago University last year. Under a Fullbright Scholarship and the moniker ‘Rhymebsome’ he toured … Continue reading
Posted in Early stage science, education, Innovation, SciBlogs, Science, technology
Tagged Kickstarter, science rapper, Tom McFadden
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Little school thinks bearly big
“And the prize for the best use of social media and punching well above its weight goes to,”….drum roll….”Koputoroa Primary School”. This 170 pupil country school, seven kilometres north of Levin on the Kapiti Coast deserves heaps of praise, alongside … Continue reading
Posted in education, Entrepreneur, high tech, Innovation, IT, SciBlogs, Science, technology
Tagged Koputaroa Primary School, Teddy Bears holiday
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Creating a deep infrastructure tool and asset for Christchurch – a (relatively) cheap idea well worth NZ Inc considering
Here’s an idea, so time topical it deserves much more thinking about by Christchurch, government and NZ Inc. The Cement & Concrete Association of NZ’s (CCANZ) education and development manager Joe Gamman spoke at the recent Multicore World 2013 conference … Continue reading
A solution to our lack of shared purpose around a science-innovation strategy
OK, now we have Callaghan Innovation gestating its way into life – with no indication of how long the process will take, or even what it is we’re trying to bring to fruition. At the same time we have the … Continue reading
