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COVID-19 support

News | 10 June 2020

Callaghan Innovation is dedicated to informing and supporting our customers and New Zealand’s innovation community, especially at this challenging time.

Entries for eco-innovation competition close Sunday night

News | 05 December 2019

Anyone with a bold concept for a product or service with the power to improve environmental outcomes is being urged to submit it for the 2019 C-Prize challenge, before entries close midnight Sunday 8 December.

Juliet Gerrard - What does worldleading environmental innovation look like?

News | 05 December 2019

As the entry deadline approaches, we asked Juliet Gerrard, the PM’s Chief Science Advisor and C-Prize judge, what she hopes to see from challenge entrants.

Talking environmental innovation with Avertana CEO Sean Molloy

News | 03 December 2019

With less than a week to go until C-Prize entries close, we asked one of our judges, Sean Molloy, for his insights on environmental innovation and tips for teams taking on the challenge.

Early Volpara customer, Jean Weigert, MD, FACR, pictured at The Hospital of Central Connecticut, reading a mammogram with a VolparaDensity scorecard on one monitor.

The breast defence

Customer story | 21 November 2019

Wellington-based medtech company Volpara Health Technologies set out to revolutionise personalised breast care - now its breast imaging tools are being used globally to improve early detection of breast cancer

Innovation award for micro 3D printing technology

News | 08 November 2019

New 3D printing technology creating highly detailed objects, smaller than a strand of human hair, has won the innovation award at last night’s Engineering New Zealand Awards (ENVI Awards).

evokeAG Agritech Mission 2020

Event | 17 February 2020 to 21 February 2020

Join us on the evokeAG Agritech Mission 2020

Taking tradies to the top

Customer story | 25 October 2019

NZ Trade Group has developed a state-of-the-art tool to help tradespeople across Australasia make a success of their business.

C-Prize 2019 challenging NZ innovators to tackle environmental problems

News | 17 October 2019

Devising a tech-based solution with the power to slow or reverse negative human impacts on climate is one of the challenges being set for New Zealand innovators in this year’s C-Prize competition.

Nationwide showcase to boost technology uptake in manufacturing