We help identify the innovation, R&D and commercialisation skills you need to amplify and elevate your ideas. Then, we train and upskill your team to put them into practice.
We have extensive connections across our country's innovation network and can help you find the right collaborators and resources to advance your ideas.
We empower you for growth and long-term success by funding specific innovation and R&D initiatives, including talent recruitment and product development.
We put world-class problem-solving expertise and R&D facilities at your disposal, helping you overcome technical challenges and take your innovations to the next level.
We'll support your business growth by helping you spot opportunities to innovate and increase productivity, set goals and get the training you need for success.
Learn more about Callaghan Innovation’s vision, values, history and mission to foster bold, innovative entrepreneurs and world-bettering companies.
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Keep up to date on the latest from us, Aotearoa New Zealand’s innovation whanau and the rest of the world.
At a glance Pyper Vision, a Christchurch-based company, is developing a groundbreaking system using UAV technology to disperse a compound that clears fog droplets, ensuring safe visibility for take-offs and landings at airports.
It’s been a big year for Easy Crypto, which last month launched its stablecoin, the NZDD, as well as a digital wallet for its customers.
Callaghan Innovation acknowledges the report of the Auditor General into how we evaluated providers for the Founder and Startup Support Programme in 2022 and we thank the Office of the Auditor General for their efforts in carrying out the inquiry.
Our team have made three key changes to the grant: Simplified co funding: 40% across both R&D projects and Capability Development - meaning more funding could be available to invest in that exciting first R&D project.
AI Governance will be launched at an AI Forum responsible AI event hosted by Creative HQ, Wellington’s innovation hub.
Andrea Bubendorfer joins Callaghan Innovation’s executive leadership team on a two-year secondment from her current position leading the Applied Technologies team.
Callaghan Innovation has today launched a counselling service to support founders whose mental health is suffering due to the significant pressures associated with establishing and growing a startup.
At a glance As one of the biggest joinery companies in New Zealand, Jones & Sanford could no longer afford all the costly and time consuming errors occurring within the business.
At a glance Previously focussed on animal probiotics, a meeting with Callaghan Innovation at Fieldays® opened the way for BioBrew to move into human health supplements.
At a glance Currently many chip sealed roads are laid using potentially explosive hot bitumen and kerosene, but roading experts Road Science wanted to develop a better way.
At a glance Pyrotek, with the only factory of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, is a manufacturer of mid-to high-end ceramic consumables for the aluminium foundry and smelting industries.
At a glance Oceanmax knew their marine foul-release coating product not only kept vessels clean but also improved performance on the water.
At a glance Art licensing company Artgame creates and prints premium lenticular images on items such as bookmarks and postcards, but they needed a quality control solution as it couldn’t be done manually.
