Our Business Growth team work with businesses in the Wellington region to:
- build capability and encourage innovation through our work as the Government’s Regional Business Partner
- increase scale, revenue, investment and employment in the region’s priority sectors. This includes bringing together industry groups, making business-to-business connections, holding sector-development events, building expertise through workshops and forums, and leading delegations to international markets.
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Regional Business Partner programme
Our role as the Regional Business Partner for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and Callaghan Innovation is to:
- Help business owners in the Wellington region identify needs and opportunities to grow their business
- Link businesses with business mentoring services
- Connect relevant businesses to capability voucher funding, expertise and programmes offered by NZTE
- Provide relevant businesses innovation advice and access to research and development (R&D) funding, expertise and programmes offered by Callaghan Innovation.
In this video, Rich Fraser - Managing Director of PixelPaint - discusses how Grow Wellington provided support, networks and access to the NZTE voucher scheme that helped him identify and fill the knowledge gaps he had as a new business owner: