Kiwa Digital Ltd (KIWA), a world leading production house for experiential digital books based in New Zealand, is to deliver interactive cartoon stories to mobile devices in China. In a breakthrough international publishing and licensing agreement with leading Chinese television company, Beijing Kaku Media, KIWA will bring popular children’s characters to life digitally in the Chinese language. The agreement was …

By Alexander Speirs Supported by an Asia New Zealand Foundation media travel grant, NZ Herald reporter Alexander Speirs travelled to China earlier this year to investigate the national drive towards innovation as the country’s economy moves into a new phase. His reports were published in the New Zealand Herald’s China Business Report. Speirs is a member of Asia New Zealand’s …

Innovation is the lifeblood of the New Zealand economy. In the 2015 Innovation report, we investigated how California continued to drive evolution as competition for entrepreneurs heightens. We drew lessons from some of the world’s most innovative US companies and talked to New Zealand trailblazers there. We examined NZ innovation trends from software through to clean-tech and green-tech and looked …