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This doesn't seem to be a universally accepted proposition in New Zealand. The total innovation rate for New Zealand businesses is less than 50%. Think Walkman and iPod. Innovation can kill a product. Think Blockbuster and Netflix. Innovation can kill a company....

The first time I visited a prison, I was 12 years old. I went with my father and a group of musicians to hold a church service for the inmates. We repeated the service in various parts of the prison, and in the minimum security wing I was allowed to sit and talk with...

Innovation is bandied about as the word “de rigueur” – it would seem we all need to be innovative and it’s even become the subject of surveys in national newspapers. A recent New Zealand Herald article reported 97% of bosses saying their organisation has an innovation...

Te Hiku Media is a charitable media organisation, collectively belonging to the Far North iwi of Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupouri, Ngai Takoto, Te Rārawa and Ngāti Kahu. The station is an iwi communications hub for radio and online media. Māori language revitalisation is a core...

Our mates at Figure.NZ and Te Pūnaha Matatini have asked us to talk about what innovation means to us. As the Innovation Partnership we bring together like minds to drive digital innovation in New Zealand. We believe that if we can put digital at the centre of our...

Agriculture used to be New Zealand’s main bread and butter. Our small Pacific nation at the edge of the earth was bred on a “number eight wire” mentality, where ingenuity and resourcefulness was at the core of what we did, and the number of sheep was ten-fold the...

Innovation has become a bit of a cliché. The word has graced the spine of one-too-many books in the business section. As someone who researches and writes about innovation I find this painful to say but, if I’m honest, there was a whiff of the naughties about it in...

Congratulations to Te Pūnaha Matatini's Acting Deputy Director Dr Siouxsie Wiles who was named a Blake Leader 2016 from the Sir Peter Blake Trust on July 1. Siouxsie leads the Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland. She has spearheaded many efforts...

New Zealand’s leading thinkers and doers are out to reframe innovation in a series of online data-driven discussions from August 1-5. Technical expert Keoni Mahelona and Antarctic researcher Dr Victoria Metcalfe are just some of the leading figures coming together to...

Meet Professor Tava Olsen from the University of Auckland. Tava is a Director at the New Zealand Centre for Supply Chain Management and was recently appointed Deputy Director - Industry and Stakeholder Engagement here at Te Pūnaha Matatini. Tava brings with her a...

We’re starting a conversation. An online, data-driven conversation that seeks to demonstrate the diversity of innovation in Aotearoa New Zealand. From August 1 – 5 we’re working with Figure.NZ to bring together the country’s thinkers and doers for a series of online...