By Yoke Har Lee
Technology New Zealand's research funding is proving useful even for big companies such as Fisher and Paykel.
The company has used the scheme to research a new generation of infant warmers now being used in hospitals around the world.
Fisher and Paykel engineers, working with Matthew Payton and his supervisor from the University of Auckland, Professor Tom Barnes, have found a computer-controlled process to monitor, detect and record what happens in the infant warmers, enabling the information to be processed mathematically.
Dr Steve Thompson, chief executive of the Foundation for Research Science and Technology, said: "This kind of collaboration, between a university and company, is the cornerstone for New Zealand's economic future based on a technology-rich society. Through the foundation's Technology New Zealand scheme we are able to fund bright young researchers like Matthew into companies to help develop highly competitive products."
Healthcare is the most profitable division of Fisher and Paykel, known best for whiteware products. Besides infant warmers, it makes humidification systems and other items.
Research help for big companies too
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