News and Updates
Latest news and updates
The 2019 Kiwinet Awards – you’ve always got our vote Bruce!
The Kiwinet Awards celebrate heroes in research commercialisation. SfTI Deputy Director, Professor Bruce MacDonald of University of Auckland was a finalist for the Baldwins Researcher Entrepreneur Award.
Rangatahi Mission Lab
SfTI is ensuring tomorrow’s hi-tech world, is being developed alongside tomorrow’s people.
Daniel Xu appointed SfTI’s Rangatahi Advisory Group Chair
Accomplished tech entrepreneur and researcher driven by a desire to create technology that will challenge the way we think, work and live.
Feedback from the 2019 Researcher’s Workshop
At our annual Researcher’s Workshop, we asked our researchers to reflect on their SfTI experience and share what is working, and what we can build on.
SfTI Chair, John Bongard has been a made a new Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
In a career spanning almost four decades, John Bongard ONZM has been at the forefront of commercial innovation in New Zealand.
Phase two projects in development and underway
Phase two (2019-2024) of SfTI is kicking off with 21 new Seed projects and eight renewed and refreshed Spearhead projects.