New Zealand ‘unicorns’ behind some of New Zealand’s most successful innovation businesses like Rocket Lab, Xero, and LanzaTech have helped to create more than $34 billion in value to the country.

"We envisage that the enhancements we can make to the product will help us grow sales in both the United States and UK, enabling us to expand our teams in each country."

Callaghan Innovation is welcoming property mogul Angela Bull and the reappointment of tech futurist Frances Valintine and to its board this week.

“More iwi investors need to recognise that these sectors will provide the high-value jobs our children need."

Callaghan Innovation has awarded a $318,000 R&D grant to Auckland-based firm SingleSource, a company that applies risk scoring to digital identity.

Imagine 3D printing things thinner and smaller than a human hair, and how they could be used in everything from sensors, electronics, wearables and meshes.

Callaghan Innovation has placed $330,000 into a local cryptocurrency savings and trading startup now called Vimba.

“We can't compete with Silicon Valley money. We have to be smarter and more focused."

Thirty of New Zealand’s agritech innovators have finally landed in Silicon Valley this week as they get ready to put their innovations to the test.

“We’ve always had a number 8 wire culture in farming but it is crucial we power that up with science and technology," says Hemi Rolleston.

"Technology has huge potential to solve many problems we face in business, in society and in our economy."

“The startups this year are a step up again from the ventures involved in the inaugural accelerator."

Radfords has been collaborating across the NZ kiwifruit industry to help it scale into the position it is in today.

Cobots are robots that work alongside their human colleagues without the need for safety guarding.

Kiwi firms spent $1.8 billion on R&D in 2017, a substantial 14% increase on 2016.

The game has passed the prototype stage, and SeeCom are currently doing research to produce the full game version.

Ambit is conceivably one of the youngest companies to receive the grant at ten months old.

“Māori businesses are more likely to take a holistic or social enterprise approach to business.”

Logan Williams has been selected to take part in the startup accelerator programme to help turn his ideas into an innovative business.

The C-Prize aimed to encourage people to push the boundaries of what’s possible through technology, and solve real-world challenges.

“Let’s be bold, disrupt the disruptors by being future-focused, and embrace the opportunities this new era.”

The search is on for big, bold, game-changing ideas and new solutions to New Zealand’s greatest environmental challenges.

The companies were evaluated across key metrics such as addressable market, customer adoption, investments, chance of survival, and innovation.

George Gong is an entrepreneur and angel investor with more than 20 years, and Stefan Korn was a member Callaghan’s Stakeholder Advisory Group.