Resources and Latest News
Resources
National Testing Register
The National Testing Register is hosted by Product Accelerator and covers a wide range of product performance testing, materials analysis and characterization, materials processing and manufacturing facilities.
Newsletters
Read our Latest Newsletters here!
Industry Collaboration Funding
The Product Accelerator Industry Collaboration Funding is designed to enable researchers to develop
relationships and collaborations with the NZ industry and the wider NZPA network. Therefore, fundable
projects should be driven by need and Industry participation.
Latest News
Inhibit Coatings wins prestigious Trans-Tasman award
The team at Inhibit Coatings has won the Trans-Tasman Innovation & Growth Award at the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum 2022 (ANZLF). The award was presented during Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Ministerial delegation to the forum in Sydney. The ANZLF...
Big win for Bremworth team
We were pleased to share that Bremworth won the Innovation & Collaboration Project Award at the Primary Industries NZ Awards. This award is recognition of their science-based and research-led sustainability programme in collaboration with Product Accelerator, The...
Product Accelerator welcomes Sir Ian Taylor as a new Advisory Board Chair
We are delighted to announce that Sir Ian Taylor is to be the new Chair of the Product Accelerator Advisory Board. Sir Ian is founder and managing director of Animation Research Ltd, a world-leading computer graphics company whose Virtual Eye technology provides...
Product Accelerator is excited to announce hub for Palmerston North partnered with Massey University’s AgriFood Digital Lab (MAFDL)
The Product Accelerator is partnering with Massey University’s AgriFood Digital Lab (MAFDL) to form a new hub in Palmerston North. The Product Accelerator Agritech Hub, located within “The Engine” on the AgResearch campus in Palmerston North will support companies and...
Big Success for students supported by Product Accelerator- Winners of Best Design Awards
Students from Victoria University of Wellington School of Design won the Best Design Awards hosted by the Designers Institute of New Zealand in different categories. Gold Award Projects Matt McGowan – Easy Prosthetics- Additive Manufactured solutions for the...
Product Accelerator’s updated National Testing Register is now live!
Many of the relationships we have with the industry begin with a request to “test” something...Many times, the test is a means to an end, whether this be a new product design or improved process. The initial testing allows us to develop deeper into a company’s needs...
Big Congratulations to Product Accelerator’s key Research Leader Prof. Johan Potgieter!
Big Congratulations to Product Accelerator's key Research Leader Prof. Johan Potgieter winner of the 2021 Kiwi Innovation Network (KiwiNet) Researcher Entrepreneur Award! Following the success of Prof Jim Johnston and Dr. Eldon Tate at the 2020 Kiwinet awards,...
Outstanding Achievement by Product Accelerator’s core team member Dr. Jingjing Liu- Marsden Fast Start Funding 2021
Product Accelerator’s researcher Dr. Jingjing Liu and the team at the University of Auckland have been awarded Marsden Fast Start funding 2021. This research will crucially inform strategies for eliminating the thermal strain of water electrolyser, substantially...
Product Accelerator and MedTech Core sponsored entry selected as one of the 35 international finalists for the Purmundus Challenge 2021
Visible Women (by Ana Morris) has been selected as one of the 35 international finalists for the Purmundus Challenge 2021. It was created by using serially sectioned cryosection images of a female cadaver produced by researchers working on The National Library of...
Next-generation Rechargeable Batteries- Marsden funded project led by Product Accelerator’s researcher Dr. Shanghai Wei
Product Accelerator researcher Dr. Shanghai Wei and the team at the University of Auckland are working on a very cool project on next-generation rechargeable batteries. Our current workhorse battery, the lithium-ion battery, isn’t suitable for next-generation battery...
