NZ Cleantech - Description of the Innovation Ecosystem

NZ CleanTech - Description of the innovation ecosystem

July 2021

Introduction

● This document describes New Zealand’s CleanTech innovation ecosystem. This will guide NZ CleanTech innovators to many of the organizations that will help them achieve their goals.

● By “CleanTech innovator”, we mean early stage and growth high-tech businesses that create products to solve climate change and other environmental problems.

Key points

● The description of the ecosystem comprises a spreadsheet that includes 200+ organizations (e.g. accelerators, corporates, government, incubators, industry bodies, investors, Research & Development) that have assisted NZ CleanTech innovators across five industry groups (Agriculture & Food, Energy & Power, Transport & Logistics, Materials & Chemicals, Resources & Environment).

● An example of how each organization has assisted CleanTech innovators is provided together with a link to publicly available information.

● The assistance identified is based on innovators’ needs for example: to understand the problem; to develop solutions; and to raise funding. Extract from NZ CleanTech innovation ecosystem

4 CleanTech innovators often need assistance on understanding the problem / opportunity, developing solutions and raising funds….

Solution Guides

Problem Guides Designers

Problem Holders Problems Solutions

NZ & overseas NZ & overseas R&D

Early Adopters

Innovators

Funding Guides

Customer Funding Government Funding NZ & overseas NZ & overseas

Private Capital 5

….different organizations provide different types of assistance.

Role Help innovators to….

Problem guides ….find problems to solve

Problem holders …..understand the problem to be solved

Early adopters …..trial / pilot / test solutions in the real world

Solution guides …..to find, develop and commercialise solutions

Designers ….to design solutions

Researchers …..to undertake research and development

Funding guides ….to understand and find funding opportunities

Government funding ….to obtain funding from Government

Private capital ….to obtain private capital Example: CleanTech innovator - Tiaki

MPI Problem guides

Problem holders R&D

Plant & Food Research Problems Solutions

Early adopters NZ & overseas NZ & overseas

Aotearoa Fisheries Sanford Sealord Aotearoa Fisheries Sanford Primary Growth Partnership Sealord

Private Capital: $24M $48M No evidence Customer Funding Government: $24M NZ & overseas NZ & overseas Ministry for Primary Industries

7 Example: CleanTech innovator - AgriSea Overseas R&D Partnership Problem holders & guides Catalyst Fund: Strategic NZ - Singapore Future Foods Farmers Iwi Research Programme

$3.3M MBIE Funding $3.3 M Singapore Govt Funding Early adopters Problems Solutions Auckland Uni NZ & overseas NZ & overseas Waikato Uni Lincoln Uni R&D Wintern Plant & Food Research Scion

Australia Europe Exports US

Callaghan Innovation Customer Funding Public

evokeAG 2019 Events NZ & overseas NZ & overseas $155k (2017- 2018) Melbourne Callaghan Innovation

8 Example: Agriculture & Food - Solutions R&D

Solutions guides Science for Tech. Innovation Nat. Science Challenge (SfTI)

Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge (MBIE)

AgResearch (e.g Seaweed, Hyperfarm tool) Bridge Hub 2020 Water Challenge (e.g EFF-GO) Bioresource Processing Alliance C-Prize (by Callaghan Innovation) Cawthron Institute (Aquaculture) Food, Fibre & Agritech Supernode Challenge (KiwiNet) Cawthron Institute (CH4 emissions using seaweed) Toitu Envirocare (Farm Carbon Certification Programme) +40 Landcare Research (Nitrogen losses from farms) Solutions AssureQuality (Farm Carbon Certification Programme) Businesses* Lincoln Agritech (e.g CertusBio) Environmental Choice (MfE) Massey University (e.g. BioLumic) *Note: Indicative data Bridgewest Ventures (Callaghan Innovation) NZ Agri Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (MPI) Kōkiri (Biome) Pacific Coast Technical Institute (PCTI) - e.g. AgriSea Bees Level Two (e.g. Pastoral Robotics, BioConsortia) Pastoral Greenhouse Research Consortium (MBIE) Sprout (Callaghan Innovation) Plant & Food Research (e.g. Tiaki) WNT Ventures Riddet Institute (Sustainable Nutrition Initiative) Calm the Farm (Funded by Toha) Scion (e.g. AgriSea 'Making nanocellulose hydrogels') AgResearch (e.g Seaweed, Hyperfarm tool) University of Auckland (e.g. Engender) Lincoln Agritech (e.g CertusBio) University of Otago (Department of Food Science) NZ Agri Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (MPI) Waikato University (Environmental Research Institute) 9 Wintec (e.g. Animal Health Research for AgriSea) Example: Agriculture & Food - Funding

Government Funding Private Capital +40 Businesses* Aotearoa Fisheries (Tiaki) C-Prize (by Callaghan Innovation) Funding *Note: Indicative data CropX (Regen) Food, Fibre & Agritech Supernode Challenge (KiwiNet) Fonterra (Lactanol) Callaghan Innovation (Grants)

Sanford (Tiaki) Department of Conservation (DOC) Funding Guides Sealord (Tiaki) MBIE - ITP Agriculture

Southern Pastures MBIE - New Zealand-Singapore Future Foods Research Bridge Hub 2020 Water Challenge (e.g EFF-GO) Blackbird Ventures (e.g. Sunfed) Ministry for the Environment (Jobs for Nature Fund) C-Prize (by Callaghan Innovation) Enterprise Angels (e.g. UBCO, Engender) Ministry for the Environment (Waste Minimisation Fund) Food, Fibre & Agritech Supernode Challenge (KiwiNet) Icehouse Ventures (e.g. BioLumic, Engender, Sunfed) MPI - PGP (Precision Seafood Harvesting) Callaghan Innovation (Grants) Impact Enterprise Fund (e.g. Waikaitu) MPI - Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures NZTE K1W1 (e.g. Halter, Sunfed, BioLumic, Hot Lime Labs) Science for Tech. Innovation Nat. Science Challenge (SfTI) NZTE - Agritech Powered by Place New Crop Capital (e.g. Sunfed) Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge (MBIE) Bridgewest Ventures (Callaghan Innovation) NZ Growth Capital Partners (e.g. Hot Lime Labs, Regen) Sprout (Callaghan Innovation) Kōkiri (Biome) Quadrant Private Equity (e.g. Sunfed) WNT Ventures Level Two (e.g. Pastoral Robotics, BioConsortia) Calm the Farm (Funded by Toha) K1W1 (MBIE PreSeed Accelerator Fund) Sprout (Callaghan Innovation) Bioresource Processing Alliance WNT Ventures Overseas Private Capital NZ Agri Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (MPI) 10 Calm the Farm (Funded by Toha)