Its fortunes took a tumble with the global recession, but Dunedin-based robotic and automatedproduction systems maker
Scott Technology
is bouncing back.The NZ Herald reports Scott's acquistion of Onehunga-based Rocklabs, with manufactures mineralanalysis equipment used by the mining industry was also hit by the downturn. Last year Scott spent$7 million a year on R&D, and will invest a similar amount next year. The full story is
Making miniaturised transmitters to be implanted in laboratory animals used in biomedicalresearch is the basis of
Telemetry Research's
business. The NZ Herald reports on the business spun out of the University of Auckland, which isable to wirelessly transmit information such as heart rate and blood pressure to a remote server.The company is still searching for its Holy Grail, a device to collect human physiological data. Thefull story is
Martin Aircraft
, the personal jetpack company isafter a serious dollop of cash to advance its prototypes and begin its sales in earnest. The NZHerald outlines the challenges its chief exective, Richard Lauder is having to attract the outsideinvestment needed. The company's after venture capital funding; but that is in short supply in NewZealand and the rest of the world. The full story is