Breadcrumbs List.
Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
-
How far does an entrepreneurial head start go?
10 June 2025
A deep dive into the graduate outcomes of 12,000 Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship alumni showcases CIE’s desire to create a long-term impact for participants, and to implement insights-informed programme design.
-
Bowen Pan: Why ‘go big and go home’ is the future of innovation in New Zealand
9 June 2025
It’s a special kind of homecoming when a former student returns not just as a guest, but as a keynote speaker.
-
It’s time to back Auckland’s innovation moment
4 June 2025
Comment: Auckland has problems but it also has enormous potential and that potential hinges on people, writes Darsel Keane.
-
Where start-ups begin – meet the 2025 Velocity Ideas Challenge winners
23 May 2025
An astonishing 318 venture ideas were submitted by students and staff from across Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland, for this year’s Velocity Ideas Challenge.
-
What are Kiwi founders really paying themselves? CIE alumnus Dr Manuel Seidel shares his story
20 May 2025
For the first time in Aotearoa, we now have clear data about how much start-up founders are paying themselves.
-
Student-led social enterprise SavY set for further success
16 May 2025
SavY’s recent inclusion in the Retirement Commission’s Financial Education Providers Advisory Group marks a significant milestone for the organisation – and confirms the value of their contribution to financial education in Aotearoa New Zealand.
-
University of Waterloo has more to offer in inspiration than intellectual property models
14 May 2025
Internationally renowned commercialisation expert Scott Inwood from the University of Waterloo’s Commercialisation Office (WatCo) recently visited New Zealand.
-
Agritech start-up Cropsy Technologies is changing the face of viticulture, vine by vine
13 May 2025
With improvements to their cutting-edge crop-monitoring tech, a maturing business model and remarkable growth over the last year, CIE spin-out Cropsy Technologies is poised to transform the landscape of the viticulture industry.
-
The Māori economy is thriving. Māori entrepreneurship is still waiting for its moment
13 May 2025
A new report from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) paints a powerful picture of a Māori economy that is increasingly diverse, values-driven, and entrepreneurial.
-
CIE alumni pledge to support innovation and entrepreneurship
29 April 2025
Dr Privahini Bradoo, co-founder and first student CEO of the University’s Velocity programme, is one of several alumni who have committed to support the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship as part of a new initiative.
-
Building resilience to the shocks afflicting global trade
10 April 2025
When President Trump announced sweeping new tariffs on almost all US imports, calling it “Liberation Day”, the reaction among some American CEOs was instant.
-
University of Auckland hosts New Zealand’s first Web3 hackathon
28 March 2025
Hackathon participants could win a share of a $30,000 prize pool, including flights, accommodation and tickets to their choice of an ETHGlobal Hackathon.