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Veronica Stevenson is one of those multi-talented young peeps who eight years ago read an obscure-ish article about the properties of a solitary bee’s nesting material. The cellophane-like natural polymer product was intriguing to her. Cellophane-like nesting material of the Australian Solitary Bee Female and male Solitary Bee ... Keep Reading
As the new government settles its feet under the running the country table, it will be getting all and sundry saying how New Zealand could spend money. Here’s probably one of the few suggestions an incoming Science and Innovation Minister, Megan Woods, will receive on how the country can make money. Align the science, innovation,... Keep Reading
How one earth would we know even the smallest amount of what was going on in our high tech businesses without the TIN Report? The report, now in its 13th annual edition, was launched in Wellington on the night of Thursday 26 October by its founder, Greg Shanahan. After encouraging participants at NZX’s presentation room to “feel ... Keep Reading
Firstly, let me put my hand up and say I’d forgotten this wee gem of a service exists. Secondly, let me put that right and do my bit to promote a bloody useful tool for any business. Thirdly, let’s not fool ourselves that Google knows ‘everything’ and can deliver the real information you may be after. Now, any ... Keep Reading
Hidden in plain sight on Wellington’s Vivian St, is a global corporate’s skunkworks play in the ‘Smart Cities’ space. NEC has a major play, developing tools that will help make decisions around citizens' lives more evidence-based Keep Reading
George Slim’s one of those comparatively rare beasts in New Zealand science (at least compared to the American environment). Dr Slim has been a practicing scientist, government employee in the new/incubator business space, consultant (including science adviser to movies) and his latest incarnation as chief executive of Hi-Aspect. This 18... Keep Reading
Vantage Consulting director David Miller is leading a presentation and discussion on the global risks arising from super-intelligence as part of the Hutt City Council’s STEMM Festival. His talk takes place on Thursday May 18 from 5.30-6.30pm at The Dowse Art Museum, 45 Laings Road, Lower Hutt, Wellington – in the James Coe 2 R... Keep Reading
So what do you do when cashflow’s a bit tight? You have outstanding invoices to be paid, but have a few of your own bills that also need dealing with. Yes you could go to your traditional bank. But 15 pages of forms later and signing over rights to your first born child is a real drag. There’s also invoicing and factoring companies. Their job... Keep Reading
Right, something you can get your teeth into…literally – Lightning Lab Manufacturing. So, instead of a 12 week accelerator to figure out how to take a digital idea out to the world, the same sort of programme but aimed at a physical product. Great. As I’ve commented before, we risk missing out on, and leveraging off the... Keep Reading
I’m a sucker for a good diagram – a picture’s worth a thousand words and all that jazz. So I thought I’d see what, if anything, came up in a search about New Zealand’s science and innovation system; diagram-wise. The image below, taken as a screenshot, is what Google came up with when I searched under ... Keep Reading
The appointment of Peter Biggs as inaugural chairman of the new Wellington Regional Economic Development Agency, is an inspired bargain. I briefly dealt with ‘Biggsy’ as he is commonly known, in a former life. My observation is that he’s great at doing deals and, even more importantly, making things happen. That, in Wellington’s case... Keep Reading
It’s in keeping with the spirit of WordPress that its Terms of Service are simple, freely available to be repurposed by others, and, the tiniest bit quirky. WordPress co-founder, and part owner of its tech-tools parent Automattic, Matt Mullenweg, pointed out there’s a ‘here’s a treat’ buried in the ToS. Speaking recently in... Keep Reading
Who would've thought that the term Holographic Virtual Reality (TM) was still there to be taken by 8i? Equally (except we're sort of now used to it), who would've thought four non-New Zealanders, who together form 8I, and who now call Wellington home, would have come together to help build the improved visual engine to power the Oculus Rift... Keep Reading
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