Our recent summer internship programme featured four diverse student projects, supported and supervised by a collaboration of scientists and researchers from the Bioeconomy Science Institute. The projects ran for…
Cetogenix is a New Zealand cleantech company pioneering modular solutions for waste valorisation, including enhanced production of renewable natural gas…
How circular design, waste valorisation and biomaterials science can intersect to create products that are both sustainable and desirable. The Loopback bangle project demonstrates how cross-disciplinary collaboration can turn…
Two sustainability challenges faced by industrial bread manufacturers globally are large volumes of returned bread and reliance on single-use plastic bags for packaging. In 2020, the Baking Industry Research…
New Zealand is world-renowned for its kiwifruit, but with this comes a challenge: the vast amount of orchard and pack-house waste that typically goes unused. KiwiLeather Innovations, a pioneering…
When it comes to boosting brain performance, Ārepa co-founder Angus Brown believes the answers lie not in pharmaceuticals — but in nature. For more than a decade, his Auckland-based…
“All the science supported through the BPA has been instrumental in validating this proposition and positioning Mīti as a world-first in sustainable protein innovation” – Daniel Carson, founder, Mīti.…
Jerome Chua, master’s student As a graduate of Singapore Institute of Technology - Massey University joint Bachelor of Food Technology, I never imagined I’d end up on a fishing…
“I’m really passionate about contributing to meaningful, practical change in how we design and use materials.” Thanks to the support of a BPA student grant, Materials and Processing PhD…
Darius Martin-Baker, Ngāpuhi (Waimā and Ngāwhā), is as comfortable treading the boards as the bard as he is pioneering research into the medicinal properties of kūmara vines. The 21-year-old…