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‘These teams are going to change the game’: Sixteen impact-focused startups selected for Creative HQ’s 2023 Impact Accelerator
Sixteen remarkable startup teams brimming with impact-focused solutions to drive positive social and environmental change in New Zealand have been selected to participate in Creative HQ’s Impact Accelerator.
Growing a sustainable future for agriculture, amplifying rangatahi voices & more: GovTech 2022 teams take on social good
From tackling migrant exploitation, to developing a new approach to foster care, 14 GovTech Accelerator teams that have been taking on Aotearoa’s biggest social and environmental challenges presented at the 2022 Innovation Showcase.
Catherine Jones: Women are driving change in Aotearoa’s innovation space.
Of Creative HQ’s staff, 71 percent are women with 62 percent in positions of leadership. Women make up the majority of people in our programmes and they have since 2016.
Government agencies, NGOs and startups coming together to tackle social and environmental root-cause problems in New Zealand
Creative HQ’s GovTech Accelerator announces this year’s cohort of innovators and celebrates five successful years of the programme and its alumni.
Wellington Innovation Hack puts Gen Z in the driving seat
A new Creative HQ programme has put young locals to work on real-world innovation solutions
The evolution of Wellington’s place of innovation: Creative HQ enters its 20th year with a brand new look
Wellington’s home of innovation, Creative HQ, is celebrating entering its 20th year by reflecting on its evolution over the past two decades and unveiling a fresh new look and brand.
Creative thinking set to be celebrated in the Capital at Mindset of Design Festival
Creative HQ pushes through COVID-19 to ensure Wellington’s annual design festival goes ahead
AI recycling solutions and Kiwi carbon capture technology: Startups come together to progress clever world-saving ideas at Creative HQ
Creative HQ announces teams participating in this year’s Climate Response Accelerator
Gen Z calls for innovation to be taught in schools
New research findings show that Gen Z see innovation as a pathway out of COVID-19