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.

Register now for the University of Auckland Mobility Dogs Hackathon, which aims to create innovative solutions that will empower disabled Kiwis to effortlessly treat and train their dogs. The 48-hour hackathon will take place during the weekend of 12-14 July.

Machine learning engineer Hwan Goh had found the transition from PhD study to start-up a challenging one. Now, Hwan is the head of machine learning at pioneering AI company MACSO, a provider of data-driven innovations, with solutions developed to address a wide range of issues related to agtech, data collection, air quality and hardware.

The Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Academic Director, Rod McNaughton, questions the search for unicorn start-ups, arguing that herds of zebras may be better for our economy and society.