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Callaghan Innovation

Provides Callaghan Innovation in New Zealand, using callaghaninnovation.govt.nz to run public innovation-facing program paths.

New Zealand
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Annual funding-
Programs5
Active grants2
Total grants5
About

Callaghan Innovation was New Zealand's primary Crown body for R&D funding and innovation support. Its work spanned AI infrastructure, biotech, climate, energy, hardware, manufacturing, materials, medtech, and robotics, and it sat at the center of the country's innovation support system before disestablishment.

Its routes included the R&D Tax Incentive, the New to R&D Grant, Project Grants, R&D Lo…

Programs & grants under this funder
Ārohia Trailblazer Grant

Funds New Zealand deep technology teams as they move promising ideas into commercial pilots.

Deep Tech Incubators

Pairs early-stage New Zealand deep-tech ventures with a specialist incubator and a minimum $1 million package, most of it a revenue-contingent repayable grant, to commercialise defensible science and engineering.

1 grant
Deep Tech Incubators
Between cycles
- pool
New to R&D Grant

Funds New Zealand firms beginning their first innovation projects and building internal experimentation capacity.

1 grant
New to R&D Grant
Between cycles
- pool
Business R&D Student Grants

Funds New Zealand for-profit companies to bring R&D students and graduates into commercial R&D roles.

2 grants
R&D Career Grant
Open
- pool·Rolling submission
R&D Experience Grant
Open
- pool·Rolling submission
R&D Tax Incentive (RDTI)

Funds New Zealand businesses through tax-backed incentives supporting innovation and experimental development.

1 grant
R&D Tax Incentive — claim year
Closed
- pool
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