We need more skilled workers and more support for R&D, writes Phil O'Reilly.

As our information pool grows exponentially, new technology enables us to process big data to provide stunning insights in many fields, writes Alexander Speirs.

Auckland needs to seize opportunities, says Brett O'Riley.

A healthcare firm has found a way to engage patients in managing their illness. Alexander Speirs reports.

When first encountering a 3D printer, any sense of scepticism that an industrial revolution could be standing before you should be quickly forgiven, writes Alexander Speirs.

We all have to find new ways of doing business, says Tim Miles.

An important feature of Maori innovation is its direct community benefit, writes Potaua Biasiny-Tule.

Innovation should be integral to business, writes Michael Barnett.

Air NZ is in one of its most exciting periods of consumer engagement for decades. writes Mike Tod.

Giant corporation's local arm is offering a hand-up for young, tech-oriented businesses, writes Bill Bennett.

Can technology bring to the healthcare sector the disruptive change and efficiencies that have transformed other industries?

Callaghan Innovation chief executive Mary Quin reckons more New Zealand companies should position themselves as global players from Day One.

When trade diplomats gather in Singapore next month for the latest round of secret negotiations in the wide-ranging Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the issue of intellectual property will again generate heated debate on the sidelines.

My dad said for years that by working overseas I had learned marketing skills that would be considered brave and bold, if I would just consider coming home. Brain drain, "Flight of the Kiwis" - whatever you call it, I was one of the million-plus New Zeala

Xero is well known to be growing rapidly, with more than 135,000 customers in its latest update, but also interesting is the amount of innovation occurring around Xero as a platform.

Nestled on the outskirts of downtown Auckland is the headquarters of Oktobor Animation - a local computer graphics animation studio driving industry-leading development and production.

We're focusing our attention on four well-documented ICT trends - cloud, social applications, mobility and big data - which are converging to both drive and enable innovation.

Imagine you have cancer. You are sitting at home with your laptop, connected simultaneously by video to your GP, radiologist, surgeon, oncologist and a cancer specialist from Boston, who will come up with your combined care plan.

Artist's impressions of the Lysaght Building, soon to be renovated as part of the Wynyard Precinct.

New Zealand has no problem generating innovation. Hardly a day goes past without a story in the media about some new technology or a smart idea being turned into a business by an entrepreneur.

Innovation has typically been a domain dominated by small-businesses and forward-thinking entrepreneurs. But it's important for New Zealand's success that big corporates create an environment in which innovation can be fostered and flourish.

Innovation from the edge instead requires you to build in order to learn, says Grant Frear.

Callaghan Innovation chairman Sue Suckling has bold plans for her "start-up", promising there will be times when "we really ruffle feathers".

All CEOs are motivated achievers but Skope Industries boss Guy Stewart has an incentive to succeed not shared by most: he's managing his parents' retirement nest egg.