Hydro-Metrics Nails Nitrate Numbers

As concerns over groundwater nitrate levels grow, scientist engineers from the Southern Hemisphere have been exporting a unique nitrate sensing technology globally. Now the company is being spun out from it’s university consultancy origins, in the hope of securing investment and scaling up the operation considerably. Hydro-Metrics started life as a business unit within Lincoln…

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Navigating The Commercialisation Of Science

Competing and thriving as a nation in a highly technological, fast changing and globalised economy increasingly dictates that universities and institutes step up and generate economic returns on their research. But although there have been a few notable exceptions here in New Zealand universities, we continue to underperform in the commercialisation of new scientific knowledge…

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