Callaghan Innovation, a new government body in New Zealand (NZ), has signed several deals with the country’s universities with the objective of bringing the scientific and business communities together on commercialisation.

Callahan’s major deal was with KiwiNet, a commercialisation unit which represents 6000 academics across a number of universities. Under the terms of the partnership, the two bodies will work together to focus the research community on commercialisation while feeding back information from the business world.

It has also entered…