Whether you are an entrepreneur working from your garage, an academic trying to commercialise research, or a student, if you have an idea, come and talk to us at the ecentre. We specialise in helping entrepreneurs taking their idea to market.
What can the ecentre offer you?
- Accelerated development of the venture through expert advice, extensive networks and access to specialist expertise
- Reduced risks through experienced business mentoring and specialist advisors
- Sharing of experience with other entrepreneurs at a similar stage of development and learning from more experienced entrepreneurs
- Excellent facilities and flexible lease arrangements
- Access to Massey University experts
What is the Process for New Ventures?
It’s all about people and therefore we’ll take great care in finding out if we are compatible.
First contact
We will invite you to register your details with us so we can get in touch with you about a suitable meeting time with one of our experts if you meet our criteria. We would also recommend that you provide us with more information before our initial meeting to give us some background information.
Do we make a good team?
If you think we can add value and you fit our criteria, then with our CEO’s approval, you will be offered to join the ecentre as an onsite or virtual client.
give us a go
As part of the incubation process, we take our early-stage companies through a 90 day Fast-Track programme which is intended, as its name suggests, to accelerate your business development.
Goals of the 90 Day Fast-Track programme
On completion of the 90 Day Fast-Track Programme, the participating venture will be at a high level of readiness for one or more of the following:
- To launch a new product/service into their first market (or new market),
- To approach investors for capital for growth
- To recruit additional people to the team
What are we looking for?
The ecentre has some straightforward criteria to ensure that we work with ventures where we can add considerable value, accelerate growth and which will result in growing New Zealand’s knowledge economy.
To be eligible for ecentre support an applicant must show:
- They have a New Zealand registered company.
- They have a sound business proposition that has global or export potential or will replace imports.
- They are committed to the business venture and are open to advice and guidance.
- The business venture is in an area that aligns with expertise within ecentre, Massey University and ecentre's partners.
Applicants to the ecentre should preferably also be able to show:
- The business will be sustainable through an ability to protect the key advantages.
- The business proposition is novel and innovative.
- The business is strongly technology-based, knowledge-based or creative.
- The business complements other ecentre resident companies.
- The business is in one of the ecentre areas of focus: ICT, manufacturing, biotech, food and nutrition, environment and cleantech, design, electronics, engineering.
So if you think you meet these criteria, or most of them, then give us a call to discuss how we can help you take your idea from garage to global.
What is the Process for New ideas?
The ecentre helps organisations to evaluate, develop and bring to market new products, services and innovative ideas.
Massey University is a client for this service. The ecentre identifies ideas and intellectual property, evaluates the commercial potential and manages the development, protection, commercialisation, licensing or sale.
Commercialisation services provided by the ecentre cover all the way from idea creation to market launch including:
- Brainstorming to generate ideas and innovation
- Evaluation and prioritisation of ideas and projects
- Research and development funding and strategy
- Scoping and strategy for protection of intellectual property
- Market assessment
- Technology evaluation
- Licensing and new venture spin outs.
If you need to generate more innovation in your company, or if you have an idea but need help to evaluate and bring that idea to market, then give us a call. We are the commercialisation experts.
