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PrintGig wins Fukuoka City Award, opening doors to Japan

9 September 2026

University of Auckland alumni venture PrintGig is taking their advanced manufacturing company to Japan to explore the country’s start-up ecosystem.
Crime-fighting tech CEO gives $30k to future founders

27 August 2026

Retail crime-fighting company Auror got its start at the University of Auckland. Now co-founder Phil Thomson is giving back with a $30k donation to support the next generation.
State of the City Report: Auckland has the ideas, the challenge is keeping them here

26 August 2026

The 2026 State of the City Report shows Auckland is gaining ground as an innovation city, but needs to do more to help promising businesses stay in the city.
Breakfast of Auckland champions

26 August 2026

A new report highlights what Auckland's champions knew all along - that it's going places. But so are many of its best and brightest.
How Nadya Fauzia built a career creating social impact

25 August 2026

From public policy consulting in Melbourne to human-centred design in Phnom Penh, Nadya Fauzia has built a career around turning complex problems into strategies people can act on.
Research to Innovation Hatchery wins national entrepreneurship award

25 August 2026

Three initiatives associated with Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland have been recognised at the 2026 GEN NZ Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Awards, spanning researcher entrepreneurship, investment and Māori commercialisation.
Creating space for aspiring game developers to experiment and connect

25 August 2026

A weekend of making, learning and collaboration gave aspiring game developers the confidence to turn ideas into playable games.
How one observation became a global clean tech company

25 August 2026

A dusty car inspired University of Auckland mechatronics graduate Steven Jiang to found AIRINS, now developing methane detection technology for operators worldwide.
Sound thinking: how 30 years of tinnitus research became a start-up

25 August 2026

Professor Grant Searchfield spent 30 years tackling the “gnarly problem” of tinnitus. His University of Auckland research is behind TrueSilence Therapeutics, a digital health start-up taking a personalised tinnitus treatment from the lab to patients.
Giving researchers commercialisation rights is just the start

24 August 2026

Opinion: New Zealand’s new intellectual property policy will boost research commercialisation only if universities help academics recognise opportunities and value innovation as academic work, writes Professor Rod McNaughton.
Innovation needs to become everyone’s business

24 August 2026

The University of Auckland has endorsed a new strategy for its Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, with a focus on growing innovation and entrepreneurship across the University and beyond.
NZ’s $133 billion tech success: what stays here?

18 August 2026

Analysis: New Zealand’s tech sector is creating remarkable value, Rod McNaughton asks how much of that success stays here.

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