Economic Development Newsletter 20/7/01
Economic Development
Creating Security
and Opportunity for New Zealanders
A newsletter from the
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Jim Anderton, Minister
for Economic, Industry and Regional Development, on Labour
Alliance Coalition Government economic development
activities.
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20
July 2001 / Issue No 4
This issue of Economic
Development:
1. Jim Anderton announces Regional
Development Conference.
2. Regional Partnerships
announced.
3. Wood Processing Industry Steering
Group
4. Enterprise Awards Scheme– Round 6
5. Industry
New Zealand to assist Southern Traverse
6. Economic
Development contact details
1 Conference to boost regional development
I am pleased to announce that there will be a major conference in November that will allow regional development experts to develop a shared approach to building our local economies and learn from each other.
This will be a significant boost to our Regional Partnerships programme and to the many groups and individuals working in the field already.
We could have tried to hold the event next year, but this work is a major priority and delaying it till next year, realistically March or April, would have wasted valuable time.
The Conference will be held in Rotorua on 28 and 29 November 2001 and will be for local authorities, iwi representatives, business people, community employment and regional development workers, advisers and government agency staff.
The Ministry of Economic Development is organising the conference and details of the event and the programme will be announced in the very near future.
This conference is going to be for over 500 delegates and will be the largest of its kind held in New Zealand.
The keynote speakers will be local and international regional development experts.
This Conference will develop and support the key partnerships that are essential to creating dynamic sustainable economic growth.
Jim Anderton MP
Deputy Prime
Minister
Minister for Economic, Industry and Regional
Development
Anyone interested in more information on the
conference contact details are:
regdev@confer.co.nz
Conferences and Events
Ltd
Fax:(03) 546 6020
Phone:(03) 546
6022
.
2 Regional Partnerships announced
Eight regions will receive funding from the third round of the Regional Partnerships Programme managed by Industry New Zealand.
Region Stage one Stage two lead
agency
Canterbury $100,000 $100,000 Canterbury
Development Corporation
Rotorua $49,375 $83,692
Rotorua District Council
Manawatu $100,000
$35,000 Vision Manawatu
Southland $100,000 Southland
District Council
Eastern Bay of
Plenty /
Mataatua $100,000 Whakatane District Council
Hawkes
Bay $100,000 Vision 2020
Wellington $70,000
Wellington City Council
Wairarapa
$82,500 Masterton Business Enterprise
Up to $200,000
is available to assist regions to make economic development
plans and build their capacity to implement those
plans.
Further funding of up to $2 million per region is
available to contribute to major regional initiatives that
develop out of the plans.
Fourteen regions have secured grants in the previous three rounds amounting to $1,300,000. This round sees the total committed increase to $2,220,500 for 19 regional partnerships.
3 Update on Wood Processing Industry Steering Group
Jim Anderton will release details of successes and the work programme for the Wood Processing Industry Sector Group in the next few weeks.
The steering group has had three full meetings as well as a number of subgroup discussions.
Steady progress has been made in areas such as Employment, Skills and Training, Resource Management Act issues, infrastructure, regional partnerships and biosecurity.
4 Role of business advisers key in
assisting companies getting Enterprise Awards
Economic Development Minister Jim Anderton says that EDANZ and BIZ advisers are successfully helping smaller businesses with applications for the Enterprise Awards Scheme.
"As part of their business services advisers are informing businesses and people with business ideas that the schemes exist and helping them to apply, and this is helping generate some good proposals," said Jim Anderton.
The sixth round of Industry New Zealand Enterprise Awards was announced in June, and 34 recipients took the number of grants awarded to 174 since the first awards in September 2000.
The Enterprise Awards were launched last year and one of the second round awards went to a company called MSWITCH for a product known as Smitch. At the time they wanted no publicity for their invention. Geraldine farmer Gerald Pemberton decided he could work out how to use a cell phone to start up his irrigation pumps located on his farm five kilometres from his house without leaving his front door.
The idea was using pager technology to send a command to a small unit that is plugged in between the socket and the appliance you want to turn on.
He was awarded $8,550 in November 2000 for developing a prototype and business planning.
This year he displayed the invention at Mystery Creek Fieldays and is taking orders for the product now.
Round 6 Enterprise Award Scheme June
2001
Auckland
Burns Enterprises. Rebeckh Burns, (09)
376 5707, $4,489. Market research for self development
projects
Wild Daisies Publications Ltd. Jill Mitchell,
(09) 813 1132, $15,354. Develop children's books for the
Korean market
Promax Technology Ltd. Nigel King, (09) 307
1771. $9,495. Intellectual property protection, design and
manufacture of prototype neck support system
Kiwi Mazes
Ltd. Colin Wells, (09) 415 5561, $ 5,000. Assist
development of an interactive maze & cave
Dave Mark
Partnership. $ 6,469, Plant growth stimulant
research
Airopac Industries Ltd. Charlie Borrell, (09)
277 7900 $1,575, Market research for packaging firm
Chances Fashion Surf & Street. Leon Jacobson, 09 297
7863, $ 7,380. Assist with expansion of retail
chain
Lautofa Iuli. (09) 846 1499, $2,652. To assist
with a dry waste disposal system
SRB Pacific. $11,257,
Development & intellectual property protection for a carrier
system
Surfbrains.com Ltd Simon Angelo (09) 625 5590, $
2,150. Optimisation of search engine
On-line
Advertising Solutions Ltd, $10,668, On-line marketing
Cherri-Toms Ltd, John Hamilton (09) 298 1879, $4,500.
Feasibility study and business plan for growing
roses.
Owltech Ltd, Rod Gates, (09) 302 3659, $1,654.
Market research
Mahanga Holdings Ltd , Ron Davey, (09)
444 0663, $ 10,000. Feasibility study into the application
of fuel cells
RMSD Ltd, Kay Madigan, (09) 419 1219. $
7,994. Prototype design for electronic anchor
winch
Footbridge Health Ltd. Graeme Ford, director,
$20,000. Prototype design & testing
WAIKATO
Rennacs
Ltd, Glenn Thornley. (07) 823 6552. $13,413. Intellectual
property protection.
BAY OF PLENTY
Stonemark Timber
Products Ltd, Peter Marks, (07) 575 2530, $4,980.
Development of roofing shutter system
Echo Absorbing Art
Ltd, Bob Russell. 025 741 377, $ 4,097. Product
development, business planning & market research, Acoustic
engineering
Puma Dart Products Ltd, John McCormick, (07)
549 0253, $1,238. To assist with market research of
sporting goods
GISBORNE
Milly Molly Group Holdings
Ltd, John Pittar, (06) 868 7769, $18,219. Assist with
intellectual property protection.
MANAWATU
-WANGANUI
Powerstick, James Hill, 021 118 3492 $14,429.
Assist with the development of a remote control
aid.
Western Harvest, Craig Jones, (06) 364 5030.
$3,165. Develop frozen food product.
Tuff-Lite Ltd,
Kevin Halsall, (06) 364 7188, $7,500. Intellectual property
protection for a trailer.
WELLINGTON
Infinet
Solutions Ltd, Anton Donde, (04) 939 2263. $9,483. Develop
marketing strategies & objectives for knowledge management
system.
Musacus Ltd. $20,000. Assist with a music
teaching device
Kapiti English Language Academy, Tony
Gan, (04) 902 6868, $3,600. Develop a new
course
CANTERBURY
Ultra Fuels Ltd , Ross Moffatt,
(03) 366 7154., $ 6,446. To assist with the development of
the “Heatlog” project
Ashford Handicrafts Ltd. Elizabeth
Ashford, (03) 308 9081. $3,187. Market research
Abretec.
Philip Ivory, (03) 367 1029, $4,782. Develop prototype air
filter
G P Steel Ltd. Graham Pell, (03) 338 8441.
$5,000. Development of a domestic wood pellet fire
Long
Plastics Ltd. Peter Spackman, (03) 323 8219. $2,363.
Market research for polystyrene products.
Lanowool. Lene
Alexandersen, (03) 358 7619. $2,301. To assist the
prototype development of breastfeeding pads
OTAGO
CKI
Ltd. $4,932, Business and financial planning
6 Industry
New Zealand to sponsor Southern Traverse
Industry New
Zealand announced in June it will provide sponsorship of
$121,000 for the New Zealand adventure race Southern
Traverse to be held in Queenstown 9-16 November.
Jim Anderton welcomed the announcement, "Funding the international Southern Traverse is part of the government's goal of having as many positive international events in New Zealand as possible. The Southern Traverse showcases our country and will attract tourists".
"The Southern Traverse will be seen by millions of people around the world and will bring in tourists and generate additional income for New Zealand," said Jim Anderton.
7 Economic Development
contacts:
www.executive.govt.nz/minister/anderton/index.html
www.industrynz.govt.nz
www.med.govt.nz
www.bizinfo.co.nz
08004BIZINFO
Venture capital information
www.vcapital.co.nz
0800VCAPITAL
www.alliance.org.nz