Comvita takes out top award

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Bay of Plenty honey and health products company Comvita and the Institute for Innovation in Biotechnology at the University of Auckland have won the 2015 KiwiNet Minter Ellison Rudd Watts Research and Business Partnership Award.

The award is given for their exemplary partnership in promoting collaboration between academics and industry whilst providing career opportunities to students and research graduates. The partnership accelerated innovation by promoting research projects and producing commercially relevant outcomes, judges said.

The Comvita team is co-located at the Auckland institute and has been collaborating on various research projects with the different departments at the university for the past five years.