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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.

The Ārohia Innovation Trailblazer Full Grant, administered by Callaghan Innovation, is for non research and development activities and encourages New Zealand businesses to operate at the frontier of global innovation – forging a path for others to follow.

We know rebuilding is going to take time and will be challenging.

1,200 students will take up placements across 560 businesses this summer as part of the 2022 R&D Experience Grants programme funded by Callaghan Innovation.

Callaghan Innovation has today opened the New to R&D Grant for applications.

Designed to provide Kiwi deep-tech startups with strong breadth and depth of commercialisation support, international and local connections, and access to investment, the Tech Incubator programme was piloted in 2014 and in 2020 was updated to incorporate learnings from the pilot.

At a glance Biotech startup Amaroq Therapeutics is developing therapies to fight some of the most hard-to-treat and prevalent cancers.

Callaghan Innovation has signed up six businesses to run its new Founder and Startup Support Programme, aimed at helping founders, startups and entrepreneurs to get their businesses up and running.

At a glance Waste-to-value business Zincovery aims to recycle the steel galvanising industry’s spent acid and zinc for reuse.

From a start at Wellington Zoo just three years ago, newly re-launched mobile location technology company AREA360 and its most famous creation, STQRY, are set to explode on the world stage thanks to a significant injection of investment funds.

At a glance By providing real-time fermentation analysis technology to the wine industry, Winely is helping winemakers make more informed decisions and solving a long-standing industry problem in the meantime.

At a glance Despite early challenges brought about by the pandemic, Bluelab saw a huge uplift in orders, with their pre-COVID digital transformation enabling them to take advantage in the surge of direct to consumer activity.