An important feature of Maori innovation is its direct community benefit, writes Potaua Biasiny-Tule.

There's more to cloud computing than storing data in a warehouse on the other side of the planet, or offloading large-scale data processing tasks.

The Icehouse CEO Andy Hamilton talks to Brierley Penn about the innovation challenge for entrepreneurs.

Innovation should be integral to business, writes Michael Barnett.

Air NZ is in one of its most exciting periods of consumer engagement for decades. writes Mike Tod.

Giant corporation's local arm is offering a hand-up for young, tech-oriented businesses, writes Bill Bennett.

Can technology bring to the healthcare sector the disruptive change and efficiencies that have transformed other industries?

Callaghan Innovation chief executive Mary Quin reckons more New Zealand companies should position themselves as global players from Day One.

My dad said for years that by working overseas I had learned marketing skills that would be considered brave and bold, if I would just consider coming home. Brain drain, "Flight of the Kiwis" - whatever you call it, I was one of the million-plus New Zeala

The new business revolution is being driven both top-down from some of the world's and New Zealand's largest companies, and bottom-up - by entrepreneurial activists and social changemakers.

Chris and Andrew Rodley, the men behind SnapitHD, are quietly revolutionising camera technology from their hometown of Nelson.

Xero is well known to be growing rapidly, with more than 135,000 customers in its latest update, but also interesting is the amount of innovation occurring around Xero as a platform.

Nestled on the outskirts of downtown Auckland is the headquarters of Oktobor Animation - a local computer graphics animation studio driving industry-leading development and production.

We're focusing our attention on four well-documented ICT trends - cloud, social applications, mobility and big data - which are converging to both drive and enable innovation.

Imagine you have cancer. You are sitting at home with your laptop, connected simultaneously by video to your GP, radiologist, surgeon, oncologist and a cancer specialist from Boston, who will come up with your combined care plan.

Artist's impressions of the Lysaght Building, soon to be renovated as part of the Wynyard Precinct.

Innovation from the edge instead requires you to build in order to learn, says Grant Frear.

All CEOs are motivated achievers but Skope Industries boss Guy Stewart has an incentive to succeed not shared by most: he's managing his parents' retirement nest egg.

Callaghan Innovation chairman Sue Suckling has bold plans for her "start-up", promising there will be times when "we really ruffle feathers".

Imagine if we could ensure young New Zealanders were the most digitally literate in the world and had opportunities to be more innovative and better compete in a modern economy.

As the CEO of an organisation with global reach whose network of relationships embraces all levels and types of business - from multi-nationals to small-medium and sole traders (SMEs) and everything in between.

Today's banks are complex. Over the years they have grown from small retail operations into sprawling financial institutions, along the way acquiring other businesses, inheriting product lines and processes.

Staff from the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will produce a scorecard of Auckland and NZ's innovation system, and the results should be favourable.

Just adding more science, research or development will not improve the innovation rate or export success of New Zealand companies. Innovation is a complicated beast and happens all over the value chain.