New Zealand Entrepreneur Events

AI disruption will have an extreme impact on New Zealand’s agriculture and health sectors in the next decade. That’s according to a white paper launched today by New Zealand’s innovation agency, Callaghan Innovation, which involved leaders in artificial intelligence (AI), including technical experts and business innovators. Released ahead of AI Day on 28 March, the […]

A solution to the issues New Zealand dairy owners are facing took out the Most Viable Business Award at the Soda Inc. Innes48 Start-up Competition at Wintec last night. The winning team, Creative Dragons traveled from China to compete in the 48-hour business start-up competition. They wasted no time in identifying and responding to the […]

This month the Practical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Paper – an online course for Kiwis striving for success built around “The Periodic Table of Innovation” – launches out of an innovation hub at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Co-founded by AUT Adjunct Professor and former advertising expert Mike ‘the Hutch’ Hutcheson, and educator, business mentor and […]

New research commissioned by insurer NZI, shows those who run a sustainable business (taking into account environmental, social and economic factors) are twice as likely to grow as those not engaged. Conducted in collaboration with the Sustainable Business Network, the survey of over 400 businesses show improved productivity, lower costs, a strong image and a […]

New Zealanders continue to embrace video and computer games, as evidenced by new sales figures released today by the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (IGEA). Consumer spending on games and hardware reached $452.3 million in 2017, a seven per cent spike on the previous year’s sales. New Zealand total physical retail sales came in at […]

A new report by MYOB says New Zealand’s tech sector lacks gender diversity and will need to do more to build a more inclusive industry. Accounting and payroll software firm MYOB warns that the number of women working in New Zealand tech sector is likely to decline over the coming years unless significant, industry-wide action […]

Xero has announced today that the company’s Auckland based employees will move to new premises at the end of 2018, allowing room for growth and to drive strategic global ambitions. Xero has signed a 12 year lease for offices in the Mansons development on the corner of Parnell’s St Georges Bay and Garfield Roads that […]

A new Kōkiri accelerator programme kicking off this week features 10 ambitious startups with products including a process that turns the environmentally damaging didymo into fabric, a digital tool for Māori millennials learning Te Reo Māori, a system providing complete visibility of the honey supply chain, and a new way to find owner-operated eateries. The […]

Does NZ need a Government Institute for Small Business? Not a question that occupies my mind, until I started to review the evidence of need. We all know there are a lot of small businesses here – but did you know that SMEs account for 97% of all enterprises in the country, employ 30.2 % […]

When Massey University first launched business incubator the “ecentre” in 2001, the New Zealand startup scene was a far cry from the developed and expansive ecosystem we know and enjoy today. Hot on the heels of the dotcom boom and subsequent crash, it would be fair to say that while there was definitely a sense […]