Wellington
It’s good to see that, at last, some of the ideas and intellectual property residing in many ofour universities and CRI’s has a bit of a national showcase through
When you think about it, New Zealand’s combined research pool is only the size of that of amedium sized USA state – so providing a potential first place for the wider world of peoplelooking for skills and expertise makes a lot of sense.
Being curlish, you could ask why it has taken so long.
But let’s give credit to KiwiNet, which has set up an Innovation Database (see
Those (original) nine are
Waikatolink
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Of interest however, considering that AucklandUniversity and its commecialisation arm UniServices wasn't in the original group hug, are the projects that link to UniServices (a cancer imagingtechnology and a cell penetrating peptide among others).
Auckland Uni has had a bit of a love/hate relationship with many of the rest of the country’sacademic/research organisations over the past years.
Delving among the tea leaves, perhaps there’s an olive branch being extended by KiwiNet –which, given the small size of our research base can only be good.
UniServices CEO Peter Lee commented (see press release
You’d have to hope that this is a living and expanding database – though heaven help the poorperson assigned the role of coordinating the whole thing.
It’s frightening to think that (the royal) we, can only come up with 80 potential products!