Welcome to NZBIO

 

NZBIO is a vibrant member-based organisation focused on growing New Zealand’s prosperous bioeconomy.  With hundreds of individual and corporate members from across agbiotech, human health, industrial and environmental and food bioscience, NZBIO plays a leading role in providing practical support for companies to grow.  

NZBIO’s activities include member events, seminars and conferences, policy advocacy, national and international outreach and promotion.Our membership base ranges from start up bioscience companies, to mature corporates and major multinationals.  We also represent New Zealand research institutes and universities, specialist service professionals, corporate, institutional, individual and student members from New Zealand and around the world.

Workshop: Strategic Risk Communication for Bioscience Leaders

NZBIO has partnered with Asia BioBusiness and the Centre for Risk Communication Australasia to bring you a specialist two-day workshop to help your organisation manage and communicate risk. This will be run by Dr Andrew Powell and Dr Andrew Roberts from ABB, and Dr Carl Ramage from CFRCANZ. The focus of the workshop is strategic risk management, and the topics covered will include:

 

  • Controversy management
  • Strategic risk communication
  • Risk communication policy & training.

This is scheduled on the 23rd - 24th May 2013 in Auckland. Further information can be found at the event page.

 

 New Zealand Engineering Excellence Awards Open

Entries for 2013 NZEE Awards are open now.

 

Awards are presented in three categories:

  • Awards Recognising People, that recognise leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and our young engineers’ and technologists’ achievements
  • Project and Product Awards, which recognise achievement in various industry areas including Chemical, Bio and Food.
  • Practice Awards which recognise excellence in environmental practice, community engagement and engineering for safety.

The awards close on 1 July. Visit www.nzeeawards.org.nz for more information.

Latest News   

 

Budget changes to research tipped 16 May 2013 - Budget changes to research tipped Changes to Government research and development funding policy are expected to be unveiled in today's Budget, including provisions that will make it easier for funds to be recouped when local technology firms are sold to overseas buyers.
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World leading enzyme sensor for monitoring lactose during milk processing 16 May 2013 - World leading enzyme sensor for monitoring lactose during milk processing Lincoln Agritech, a 100% subsidiary of Lincoln University, has produced the world’s first at-line biosensor for detecting lactose in milk processing plant waste streams, an innovation that could yield significant efficiency improvements for New Zealand’s dairy industry.
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Andrew Patterson talks Andrea Grant at Living Cell Technologies, a company expecting to grow to be a significant bio-pharmaceutical player 14 May 2013 - Andrew Patterson talks Andrea Grant at Living Cell Technologies, a company expecting to grow to be a significant bio-pharmaceutical player Success doesn’t come easily in the biotech sector. With significant start-up costs, on-going research complications, the need for extensive clinical trials and the inevitable delays in getting products to market this is not a business for the faint hearted.
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