The Park
Waikato Innovation Park is New Zealand’s growth hub for Ag-Biotech businesses. This is where leading primary sector science, technology and research meet the catalyst of entrepreneurship. The growth accelerants of resourcing and collaboration are married to a global pipeline of opportunities through strategic relationships with the region's most successful companies.
Waikato Innovation Park has been established from a public/private partnership to enhance Waikato economic growth by strengthening Innovation in the region's world leading Agritech and Ag-Bio sectors and is currently home to over 50 companies.
The park is located on 17 hectares of land next to the world famous Ruakura Research Centre, home to AgResearch, Plant & Food Research ( formerly HortResearch), Landcare and Dexcel. It is also in close proximity to the University of Waikato Campus. Nineteen further buildings are planned.
The Waikato is already the country's leading location for science research, with approximately 1000 research scientists working in Hamilton, giving the city one of the highest ratios of scientists per capita in the world. A quarter of the research undertaken in New Zealand occurs in Waikato organisations.
Wintec, The University of Waikato and AgResearch are strategic partners with Waikato Innovation Park. The relationship gives park tenants ready access to specialist resources such as laboratories, IT systems, research capabilities, student support and tertiary programmes.
Some of the services offered to tenants of the Waikato Innovation Park include...
- A network of widely-recognised expertise in Agritech, ICT and Hi-tech sectors
- A culture of collaboration and innovation between research, entrepreneurs and business
- A Core Facilities Building providing business infrastructure ready to accelerate and incubate new business
- On site and networked professional services to effectively mobilise new businesses
- Shared services to allow businesses to focus on their core processes, services and products
- Set in 16.8 hectares of pasture among large trees for business, research and development functions
- A regional hub of networks to provide resources to entrepreneurs
