A new angel investment partnership is looking to invest up to $8 million developing technology ventures emerging from life sciences, engineering and ICT research.   The partnership between the New Zealand Venture Investment Fund and AngelLink, the newly-formed national angel investment network, aims to invest up to $8 million into high growth technology ventures. AngelLink chairman Chris de Boer welcomed the partnership with ...more »

Saratan Therapeutics Limited is a New Zealand drug development company spun out of Auckland UniServices, the commercialisation arm of The University of Auckland. Saratan is the second recipient of funding from the Trans Tasman Commercialisation Fund (TTCF). The TTCF is an AUD$30million dollar investment fund designed to help the earlystage commercialisation of intellectual property developed at The University of Auckland and four Australian ...more »

The Securities (Disclosure) Amendment Act 2009 (Amendment Act) is now in force. The Amendment Act reduces some of the regulatory barriers facing New Zealand businesses looking to raise capital. The Act does this by introducing the simplified disclosure prospectus (SDP) regime. It also changes some of the categories of offers which are exempted from Securities Act 1978 (Securities Act) compliance. Read the Simpson Grierson FYI update Read the ...more »

“Powerful underpinning food science will be created by teams of scientists from Fonterra, AgResearch, Massey University and Plant & Food Research” says Dr Andrew West, Chief Executive of AgResearch, as these entities today announced a formal collaboration. AgResearch has a large capability in dairy and red-meats food science, primarily based in Hamilton and Palmerston North, and now expanding into Canterbury too. This new ...more »

Read Minister of Economic Development Gerry Brownlee's address to the Private Capital Markets Forum on 10th August 2009 here.   (Source: ...more »

In a collaboration of unparalleled scientific expertise in New Zealand, AgResearch and the University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute are seeking to discover how nutrients in food affect animals and humans to improve body composition. “We aim to investigate how nutrients in foods are released during digestion and how those nutrients then affect our metabolism. The interaction between the digestion and absorption of nutrients i.e. ...more »

Unregistered securities trading facility Unlisted* has announced that Vehicle Inspection New Zealand Limited (VINZ) joins the facility today. Unlisted Manager Bruce Cossill said “We are delighted that VINZ has chosen to use Unlisted to provide its shareholders with a flexible and cost-effective solution to meet its secondary trading needs. “VINZ shareholders recently voted to de-register as a co-operative company and adopt a ...more »

The treatment of wounds using a unique deer velvet product will be tested on humans thanks to an investment by AgResearch, Deer Industry New Zealand (DINZ) and their joint venture company VARNZ Ltd. The product, ‘RepaiRx’, has emerged from an ongoing research programme between DINZ and AgResearch to study the unique properties of deer velvet. “If trials are successful we will seek commercialisation of what could be a ...more »

Salary and wage rates rose by 0.3 percent in the June quarter, taking them up 2.8 percent in the year to the June quarter. This is down from the 3.3 percent increase in the year to the March quarter. This is the lowest annual increase recorded since a 2.6 percent rise in the year to June 2005 quarter; and the 0.3 percent increase on the quarter is the lowest recorded since the September 2000 quarter. Salary and wage rates in the public ...more »

AgResearch has appointed Professor Warren McNabb as Science and Technology General Manager of its Food & Textiles Group.    Warren McNabb AgResearch Chief Executive Dr Andrew West says he is pleased to confirm Professor McNabb in this important leadership position in the Institute....more »