Callaghan Innovation

The HealthTech Activator

The HealthTech Activator is a sector-wide initiative connecting resources and expertise, allowing NZ healthtech companies to access essential support to turn their innovations into successful businesses.

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COVID-19 support and service updates

We are launching new support measures, and adapting existing services, as businesses move through COVID-19 alert levels.

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We are New Zealand’s innovation agency.

We activate innovation and help businesses grow faster for a better New Zealand.

Our services

Access to experts

Connecting you with the right advisor, partner, mentor or technology provider.

Technology and product development

Take an idea from concept to commercial reality with our tailored R&D solutions.

Innovation skills

Giving you the knowledge, skills, and motivation to innovate and succeed.

R&D funding

A range of R&D funding to add scale, depth and return to your R&D investment.

Scale-Up NZ

Join our free online platform that connects innovative New Zealand businesses to the world.

Customer stories

Breaking bread

Environmental innovators Citizen rescue unsold bread to make beer, then use the ‘mash’ from that beer-brewing process to make bread.

Force of nature

A focus on R&D has had a major payback for Bay of Plenty natural pharmaceuticals company, HoneyLab.

An oasis of innovation

Tauranga's Oasis Engineering is shipping better products faster by employing Lean methodologies in its product development and manufacturing processes.