Category Archives: university

Problemsourcing initiative gets the academic once-over

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

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 →

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Callaghan Innovation – wishing it all the best…..but

Posted on January 25, 2013 by

I hope I’m wrong about Callaghan Innovation, and for our country’s and industry’s sake that it is a roaring success when it stumbles into life on Feb 1. But, the portents aren’t good – and as a solution in search … Continue reading →

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Some worrying disquiet around Callaghan Innovation

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

From what I gather, it is not only me who has a degree of disquiet about the lengthy and somewhat secretive gestation taking place around Callaghan Innovation (the new moniker for the Advanced Technology Institute). Because part of the unease … Continue reading →

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Callaghan Innovation – time for a concrete and practical illustration of its intent

Posted on November 22, 2012 by

OK, now that we have the naming of the Advanced Technology Institute out of the way, and its genesis to Callaghan Innovation has been carried out, it’s time to move on from the warm fuzzies. The thinking behind the new … Continue reading →

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Let’s accept now that the ATI will find it very difficult to kick off by February next year

Posted on October 25, 2012 by

By the look of things, maybe we should accept, now, that the Advanced Technology Institute won’t be up and running by 1 Feb 2012. This was a two-month postponement from the original 1 November 2012 date – but the way … Continue reading →

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Getting to a BLISful state a long and winding road

Posted on October 11, 2012 by

Dunedin-based BLIS’s oral cavity probiotic products have “spent a long time on the runway”, as it chief executive Dr Barry Richardson described the other day. (Briefly wearing a journalist hat, I interviewed Richardson for BusinessDesk). There’s a certain irony in … Continue reading →

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The Patents Bill and the Wai 262 Report: two solitudes in search of common ground

Posted on September 26, 2012 by

A guest blog by Doug Calhoun In an earlier post on the Patents Bill: I mentioned that the introduction of the Bill had been delayed for 14 years because of concerns about the Wai 262 claim. Nearly fifteen months after … Continue reading →

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Know and figure out ‘pain points’ before any commercialisation – KiwiNet

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

Market validation, before the really expensive part of idea commercialisation, was Duncan Ledwith’s message to KiwiNet people. What pain point do you address was his rhetoric question put to university and CRI commercialisation people at a recent Wellington forum? The … Continue reading →

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Tapping into market knowledge….down at your local library!

Posted on June 7, 2012 by

One of the great things about going to events such as the World Class New Zealanders Inspire day in Wellington is you never know who you’re going to bump into. Thus, how many people know that Wellington’s Public City Library … Continue reading →

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Science gets a rap – Tom McFadden

Posted on June 5, 2012 by

Getting kids interested in science is a bit of a challenge around New Zealand, but transplanted American Tom McFadden’s doing his best to up the excitement. The Californian, a Stanford biology lecturer in a former life, is currently studying a … Continue reading →

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