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Innovation

If you're a business looking to innovate through R&D, Soda can help

As the Waikato region’s Regional Business Partner (RBP), Soda works with Callaghan Innovation to provide ambitious and internationally focused businesses with access to a range of innovation and R&D services.

Soda can also assist businesses to navigate the variety of R&D grant funding options available, ensuring you are aware of and able to access the most appropriate funding for your stage of growth.

How we can help

Whether you’re a start-up or an established business, one of our Innovation Specialists can help you innovate and grow your business through providing information about and access to innovation and R&D services and funding.

We can help you:

  • access Callaghan Innovation’s R&D grants, programmes and services•
  • navigate the application process for grants and funding•
  • connect with the right people, institutes and organisations

To be eligible for support from our Innovation Specialist you must be:

  • a registered company, partnership or sole trader, OR, from an iwi organisation, Maori land trust or incorporation
  • based in the Waikato

If you answered yes to the above, please fill in the form below and we will be in touch.

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What our clients say

Soda allowed my company to gain focus on the issues that I needed to address to move quickly from a promising idea to fully fledged business. My business advisor and other experts helped solved some critical roadblocks that were holding up my progress.

- Susan Wheeler, Founder, Hop Revolution

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