Background
Our vision
New Zealand is a vibrant and prosperous technology-driven economy, with new businesses offering high-value services and products that may not yet have been invented.
What we do
SfTI aims to develop world-leading science and technology relevant to New Zealand, with a focus on building enduring partnerships between researchers, business, and Māori organisations. We have invested in over 70 leading-edge hi-tech projects and supported approximately 400 researchers from over 39 different research organisations.
How we operate
We bring together some of New Zealand’s best physical science and engineering talent (researchers) from our research partners, Māori and industry.
Our research
Our research themes (areas of focus) cover:
- Materials, manufacturing technology and design
- Sensors, robotics and automation
- Data science & digital technologies
- Vision Mātauranga
Across these themes, we support and invest in large multi-disciplinary Spearhead projects and small high-risk Seed projects
Vision Mātauranga
Our goal is to unite Māori knowledge and western science to explore new and exciting opportunities to build a vibrant and prosperous technology-driven economy. Read more about the initiatives we have in place, to ensure we continue to deliver Vision Mātauranga impact.
Capacity Development Programme
SfTI also offers its researchers, a Capacity Development (professional development) Programme to support them to take their careers to the next level. The focus of this programme is to support our researchers to build their human (soft skills) and relational (networking) capacity. The goal is improve connections between researchers, industry and Māori so that science is not left ‘stranded in the lab’.