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How government agency Callaghan Innovation could help fuel your high-tech growth
Accelerate your business’s innovation by accessing experts, facilities, connections, and funding available from Callaghan Innovation.
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If you’re looking to innovate and expand your business fast, it’s handy to be able to tap into existing networks, including government support, grants, or co-funding. Technology and product development requires specialist intervention and this is where Callaghan Innovation can help.
What is Callaghan Innovation?
Callaghan Innovation is a government agency that partners with ambitious businesses of all sizes, providing a range of innovation and research and development (R&D) services, to suit each stage of growth. Its people include business experts and more than 200 of New Zealand’s leading scientists and engineers. They empower innovators by connecting people, opportunities and networks, and providing tailored technical solutions, skills and capability development programmes, alongside grants co-funding. It also works closely with government partners, Crown Research Institutes, and other organisations that help increase business investment in R&D and innovation.
Research and development funding
There are a variety of funding and support options you can explore to help boost your on-going research and development such as:
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R&D Tax Incentive - Allows qualifying businesses to claim a 15% tax credit on eligible R&D costs
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Student Grants - For businesses engaging students to help develop commercial solutions
- Getting Started Grants - Helps you launch your R&D journey to enable a new or novel product, process, or service
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Project Grants - Helps you take on larger or more challenging R&D
For more information about funding options, check out Callaghan Innovation’s R&D funding information page.
Advisory expertise
Regardless of what level your business is at, one of Callaghan’s critical roles is sharing its extensive knowledge and connecting you to the right people.
Dedicated experts can:
- provide access to technical and scientific knowledge
- assist with technology and product development
- explain options for co-funding your research and development
- offer innovation skills training
- give impartial advice
- connect you with industry networks
- provide state-of-the art facilities and labs for product development.
Export services offered through partnerships
Callaghan Innovation also partners with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) to help businesses successfully expand into overseas markets.
Providing Māori business innovation opportunities
The Māori economy team can connect Māori businesses to the right R&D services and co-funding, and the right opportunities and networks, to help businesses innovate, commercialise, and grow faster.
Callaghan Innovation’s websites
Callaghan Innovation also has a number of specialist websites.
- Scale-Up New Zealand to help find and connect people and resources here and overseas.
- Research & Development Services for a wide range of scientific and engineering expertise.
- GlycoSyn produces complex active pharmaceutical ingredients for pre-clinical and clinical drug development programmes.
- KiwiStar Optics for the astronomy, instrumentation, defense, and surveillance industries.
- Measurements Standards Laboratory provides specialist measurement and consultancy services.
Working out what help you need
If you don’t know what type of help you need, you can always reach out to the Regional Business Partner Network (RBP) as a first step.
If your business is about creating innovative, high-tech products, but you need support to get off the ground or accelerate growth, Callaghan Innovation is an option that’s well worth considering.
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