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Learn how membership with Business Canterbury can help you take your business in the direction you want it to go. 

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Resources and Support to Help Your Business Grow

Business Canterbury is proud to be your local Regional Business Partner within the national Regional Business Partner network. The Regional Business Partner Network provides an invaluable resource for New Zealand businesses through information and support to help you achieve your business goals.

Our Regional Business Partner Growth Advisors can meet with you for a free business assessment to take a birds-eye look at your whole business, then identify the next steps in your business and provide you with an action plan and connections to experts and resources to set you in the right direction. 

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Thinking about developing new products, processes, or services? Or perhaps you already have an ongoing R&D programme and need support to take it to the next level? Then you have come to the right place.

As a local Regional Business Partner for Callaghan Innovation, we can help you accelerate your research and development projects to maximise your commercial return.

 

Whether you are a backyard inventor or an established business, if you are a New Zealand registered company, get in touch with us to discuss how we can help you take your innovative concept to a commercial reality.

Through Callaghan Innovation, we can help you find innovation support in areas including:

  • Product design and development
  • Investigating and protecting your intellectual property
  • Accessing technical expertise
  • Accessing innovation skills-building programmes.

INNOVATION, RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

Thinking about developing new products, processes, or services? Or perhaps you already have an ongoing R&D programme and need support to take it to the next level?

You have come to the the right place. As a local Regional Business Partner for Callaghan Innovation, we can help you accelerate your research and development projects to maximise your commercial return.

Through Callaghan Innovation, we can help you find innovation support in areas including:

  • Product design and development
  • Investigating and protecting your intellectual property
  • Accessing technical expertise
  • Accessing innovation skills-building programmes

We can also help you accelerate your R&D projects through a range of R&D project grants, student grants, and growth grants.

Whether you are a backyard inventor or an established business, if you are a New Zealand registered company, get in touch with us to discuss how we can help you take your innovative concept to a commercial reality.

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“When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.”
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Gene CernanAstronaut, Apollo 17
“When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.”
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Gene CernanAstronaut, Apollo 17
“When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.”

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Our RBP Team

Need help? You have come to the right place.

Our Regional Business Partnership team is here to help you access the resources and guidance you need to grow your business.

The Regional Business Partner Programme is supported by MBIE and Callaghan Innovation.

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