Sandy's favourite part of her job is sharing experiences and growing with others. This place radiates a unique energy, created by the people who form our community.

The 2024 University of Auckland Venture Lab incubator programme recently concluded with a celebration event, showcasing participants transformative growth and innovative breakthroughs.

Talented mechatronics engineer Nancy Zhou was handpicked to help OpenStar win the global race to achieve commercial nuclear fusion.

With Field Days behind us, it’s an excellent time to reflect on New Zealand’s agricultural sector’s critical productivity challenge and how entrepreneurial students and researchers can help.

Virtually managed cows are a multibillion-dollar concept, but Halter founder Craig Piggott says their success has been more about the execution.

Dr Amanda Sterling's research explores the challenges faced by mothers in leadership roles. What it revealed prompted her to advocate for inclusive leadership practices and support systems that recognise and accommodate women's experiences of motherhood.

Maru's favourite part of her job is interacting with the diverse students who participate in CIE's programmes and workshops. She has found that implementing the value of manaakitanga in her role to be incredibly important and rewarding.

A small NZ company, Weather Radar NZ, is making a big impact through its specialist weather and climate advice, monitoring and consultancy services. The MBIE recently gave it a grant to undertake research for NASA.

The University of Auckland physics student, CIE Creative Technologist, and Chiasma COO sees innovation and entrepreneurship as a personal and professional development journey and is exploring other options for what his future might look like, such as exploring research commercialisation.

For WM Robotics founders (and pie enthusiasts) Sasha Mates and Vincent Wong, the inspiration behind their start-up’s first product – an innovative hot pie vending machine they’ve called “PieBot” – was simple: hunger. And as their recent successes and opportunities show, there’s a lot more than pies in the pipeline.