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• ​Canterbury Uni students kickstart 3D printing ideas with $3m Govt funding

  “Many partners and collaborators - more than 30 people - have worked hard on the project, involved in both research and commercialisation."

• Canterbury start-ups win big following Govt innovation funding round

  Five of seven technology start-ups set to receive funding from Callaghan Innovation have connections to the University of Canterbury.

• Christchurch firm looks to tap external markets and investors

  Christchurch-based Nightside Test Design, which provides testing services for technology and power companies, will look beyond Australasia to fuel growth in the coming year.

• IBM to upgrade Canterbury University high-performance computing centre

  IBM is set to upgrade the University of Canterbury’s BlueFern High Performance Computing (HPC) facility, having signed a new four-year contract following the initial establishment of BlueFern at the university in 2007.

• New centre to bridge gap between academia and industry

  The University of Canterbury is opening its national ICT Innovation Institute, called NZi3, on April 23.

• Canterbury Uni commissions $5 million datacentre

  The University of Canterbury is commissioning a new, lights-out datacentre, which will be fully operational by the end of the year after nine months of construction.

• Canterbury makes Taiwan connection

  Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is looking at building a relationship with the University of Canterbury after a visit by its president, Dr Johnsee Lee.
  ITRI, which has helped Taiwan become a world leader in semiconductors, personal computers and other technologies, has seven laboratories in four centres with 6,000 staff. It creates three to five new companies each year.
  “In the hi-tech area Taiwan is much more hardware oriented and we are not as good in software applications and content. And those are the areas that Canterbury has a lot of strengths,” Lee says.
  “I think that’s an area that we are very interested in collaborating on. We have to go back and digest what we have learned and we will send a delegation back for more detail. But we would very much like to leverage the strengths of Canterbury in the ICT area and some of the biomedical applications."
  During his visit, Lee met with the CEO of the Canterbury University’s commercialisation company, Canterprise, the Director of NZi3, the national ICT Innovation Institute based at the university, and various university researchers.

• Imagine Cup highlights green innovation

  A University of Canterbury team has won this year's Imagine Cup — the New Zealand leg at least.

• Postgrad qualification highlights ‘professional practice’

  A new postgraduate certificate in ICT and related business skills has been instituted, as a result of discussions between industry representatives and the Tertiary Education Commission.