Innovation
Orientation Aotearoa
Orientation Aotearoa is an eight month residential education programme for aspiring change-makers aged 18 to 28. It was founded in part by Lucy Carver and Skye Chadwick and it focuses on leadership… Audio, Gallery
Technology And Innovation
Our technology correspondent Paul Brislen is here to talk about Kim Dot Com's alternative Internet and the failure of big corporations to properly care for our private information. Our innovator of… Audio
Ayla's Dad
Vaughan Hutchinson talks about the family's journey and Ayla's successes. Audio
Ayla's Kindling Cracker
Ayla Hutchinson. She's a 16 year old Taranaki student. And an award winning inventor and business person who's developed a novel new way to chop kindling that's selling world-wide. Amelia Nurse - who… Audio
Designer Health
In a New Zealand first, design students from AUT are working in-house at Auckland City Hospital to help improve the health and wellbeing of patients, staff and visitors. Video, Audio, Gallery
Ogo – the award-winning electric wheelchair
The Ogo is an electric wheelchair that runs on lithium-ion batteries. Kevin Halsall designed it for his friend Marcus Thompson, a paraplegic since 2003. Amelia Nurse visits his workshop in Otaki to… Video, Audio
Festival for the Future - Nadine Rutter
Festival for the Future was a chance to connect with innovators and influencers from across the nation. Audio
Open innovation
GitHub is an online community of some 9 million coders and web developers sharing computer code and working together. Brandon Keepers is its head of Open Source and he's in New Zealand talking about… Audio
How to do more with less: Navi Radjou on frugal innovation
Navi Radjou is an innovation and leadership strategist based in Silicon Valley. His book, Frugal Innovation - How To Do More With Less, written with Jaideep Prabhu, uses the Hindi word for improvised… Audio
Urbanist Tommy Honey discusses issues affecting city dwellers
Tommy Honey talks about a conference, some architects and a lot of innovation. Audio
Spectrum for 23 November 2014
Lifelong innovator and ideas man Lee Bennett has created a workshop space where he and assistant Wolf Hatch encourage young and old to experiment with technology, think like entrepreneurs and sow the… Audio
Innovation in Conservation
High-tech ideas and products in conservation were recognised at this week's inaugural Innovation in Conservation awards. Audio
3D Printing Bone
Researchers at the MacDiarmid Institute are using 3D printing and self-assembling materials inspired by biominerals to recreate bone. Audio
Listener Feedback
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 7 June 2014. Audio
Mary Quin: kidnap and innovation
Chief executive of research and development body Callaghan Innovation who gave evidence in the trial of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the Islamic cleric behind the 1998 attack on her tour group. Audio
Clean Technology
Blenheim-based company CarbonScape is preparing to make green coke for New Zealand's steel industry. Audio
NZ Society - Leading Edge
Amelia Nurse visits an exhibition on at the National Library in Wellington. It's called Leading Edge and it's on innovation in New Zealand - past and present. Curator and designer Liane McGee talks… Audio
NZ/German Collaboration in Robotics
University of Auckland engineers join forces with the German Fraunhofer Institute to develop robots for industry. Audio
Ideas for 11 November 2012
Next weekend will see dozens of young innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists descend on Wellington for the Festival for the Future. Ideas talks to four of the festival's speakers. Audio
A panel discussion about innovation and cultural institutions
Angelina Russo, John Barnett and Aidan Lang explored the challenges of attracting and engaging new audiences with Finlay Macdonald. Audio