This year, a record 59 student participants of the Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) have had their newly acquired skills and extra-curricular work recognised with a University of Auckland Distinguished Graduate Award. 

MAUI63 is so named as when the venture began, there were only 63 Māui dolphins left in existence. Using drone technology and AI to collect and process visual data, the founders hope to empower scientists, government, fisheries and the general public to take action to try and save the world’s rarest dolphin from extinction and influence future marine conservation efforts.

Native Harvest is a start-up created by University of Auckland students that is exploring the use of edible native plants as novel high-value foods.

A scientist using drones for application for manta ray conservation efforts in the Indo Pacific, New Zealand Universities National League Case Competition winners and the founder of a social media platform for making platonic friendships have all been recognised as outstanding student innovators in the 2022 University of Auckland Blues Awards.

A group of 13 University of Auckland students recently enjoyed the opportunity of a lifetime to have an all-expenses-paid trip to Silicon Valley, where they met with world-leading innovators and entrepreneurs.

Behaviour change problems of sustainable shopping, sidewalk safety and composting were addressed with hi tech solutions in the first ever Solve It with 5G sustainability innovation sprint run by the University of Auckland Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE).

The Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) runs a wide range of free programmes and workshops designed to help students and staff of all faculties at the University of Auckland develop entrepreneurial mindsets and innovative capabilities. Leading the team that creates CIE's programmes is CIE Manager Judith Marecek.

A recent insights report created by the World Economic Forum came to the conclusion that it will take another 132 years to close the global gender gap. It also showed that women are starting their own companies at a rate outpacing men, raising questions that women may be opting out of participating in the systems that disadvantage them.

The 15 finalist teams for the University of Auckland Business School’s Velocity $100k Challenge have been announced. Venture ideas have been developed by students and staff that address a range of economic, social and environmental problems. The concepts represent the diversity of entrepreneurial thinking at the University with the ideas including solutions for water issues, sexual consent, mental health, dementia, chronic pain, sustainable packaging and satellites.

The University of Auckland Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) recently hosted Kiwijam at its innovation hub and maker space, Unleash Space, for their Auckland annual in-person game-jam. This year’s theme ‘Together’ was in reaction to the isolation people have experienced during the pandemic.