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Solenza develops new approach to solar energy generation

Hamilton, New Zealand - 5 May, 2009 - Solenza has developed a revolutionary new way to harness the power of the sun to generate electricity and heat water by integrating long run roofing iron with a solar energy transfer system. Solenza’s patented technology, a shift away from bolt on solar energy panels, uses the surface area of the roof to convert solar energy from the solar cells directly into electricity for commercial, industrial and household use... read more

iPhone apps boom creates opportunities for WaikatoLink

Hamilton, New Zealand, 4 May 2009 - The Apple App Store is leading the application-download trend and WaikatoLink is sharing in that success with 150,000 downloads of their iPhone applications to date. The enormous success of the Apple iPhone has seen the number of contributions by individual developers boost the App Store’s offerings to more than 25,000 applications. WaikatoLink, the commercial arm of the University of Waikato, have launched five applications in recent months including an airplane simulator, vehicle performance accelerometer, and a snow globe.... read more

WaikatoLink joins International Incubation Initiative (Icube)

Hamilton, New Zealand, 23 April 2009 - WaikatoLink has been named as one of the first members of the International Incubation Initiative, Icube, launched by Exploit Technologies at the New Zealand Business Forum in Singapore yesterday. Icube was set up to encourage innovation, new opportunities, collaboration and international business linkages through greater access to incubators internationally ... read more

iCalibra Module Delivers NIR Instrument Standardization Breakthrough

Hamilton, New Zealand, December 12, 2008 – Khipu Systems, developer of the iCalibra software platform for NIR, today announced that it has developed a breakthrough in the area of NIR instrument standardization.

The iCalibra Standardization module allows single calibration models which provide accurate results from dispersive and FT instrument technologies simultaneously. Significantly, the standardization processes are integrated within the predictive models, so the models and standardization layers are capable of automated re-learning and enhancement ... read more

Unicom consortium appoints top talent to investment committee

Hamilton, New Zealand – 28 November 2008 Unicom, a university commercialisation consortium comprised of WaikatoLink, AUT University, Lincoln University and Canterprise, has appointed the Hon Ruth Richardson, Dr Mark Ahn and Mr Bill Day to an investment committee responsible for overseeing millions in pre-seed investment funds awarded to help commercialise research from the universities.

The Unicom consortium was awarded $4.9 million government pre-seed funding by the Foundation of Science Research and Technology (FRST) earlier in the year. The funds will be employed to unleash the economic potential from the intellectual property in the universities. Collectively the universities receive $4.935 million over 3 years, the largest amount paid from the PreSeed Fund designed to maximise the commercial benefits to New Zealand from publicly funded research ... read more

New Zealand university commercialisation groups join global Technology Transfer Network

New Zealand - 26 November 2008 - Commercialisation groups from three New Zealand Universities; AUT University’s AUT Innovation and Enterprise, The University of Auckland’s UniServices and University of Waikato’s WaikatoLink have been named as new members of the Technology Transfer Network (TTN), a collaborative alliance of technology transfer offices formed to enhance the effectiveness of technology transfer to industry.... read more

If you are interested in finding out more about the WaikatoLink Venture Incubator, please contact:

Darren Harpur

Venture Manager

Email:

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(07) 838 4232

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021 408 828

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(07) 857 0781

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