KiwiNet

🚀 This is what research making a difference looks like.

The AJ Park Commercialisation Impact Award celebrates projects that have gone beyond the breakthrough — delivering real economic, environmental, social or cultural impact for Aotearoa.

Meet our stellar finalists:

🌟 Nectaron: Next-generation flavours brewing global success

🌟 Potato Innovation: A sustainable French fry future

🌟 Zincovery: Leading the future of clean metal refining

🔗 Learn more about the finalists: https://kiwinet.org.nz/Awards/Awards2025Finalists

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Bioeconomy Science Institute Plant & Food Research University of Canterbury NZ Hops Ltd

Bright ideas, big potential 🚀 Meet the students who are shaping New Zealand’s future! Introducing this year’s finalists for the Momentum Student Entrepreneur Award:

✨ Emmalee Abbott Joe - Froth: Making travel more sustainable, one haircare tablet at a time
✨ Josiah Bugden – CourseSpy: Creating transparency in higher education
✨ Jade Luxton – Sterineedle: The holster revolutionising livestock vaccinations

🔗 Explore their innovations: https://kiwinet.org.nz/Awards/Awards2025Finalists

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University of Canterbury University of Otago

Big ideas deserve big recognition! 💡 Entries for the 2025 KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards are now open!

This is your chance to get your people and projects in front of New Zealand's key industry leaders. Are you or someone you know making waves in innovation? Don’t wait – enter now! 2025 categories are:

🔹 Breakthrough Innovator
🔹 Breakthrough Project
🔹 Researcher Entrepreneur
🔹 Commercialisation Professional
🔹 Commercialisation Impact

📅 Deadline for Entries: 17 April 2025
🎉 Save the Date: Awards evening celebration 22 October 2025

Find all the details and entry forms here: https://kiwinet.org.nz/Awards

Every great idea needs the right match 💖