Beca and Creative HQ reveal strategic innovation partnership

Beca this week announced a strategic partnership with leading innovation service provider Creative HQ to further accelerate the commercialisation and diversification of the next generation of Beca’s services to add new value to clients and communities.

The collaboration between Beca and Creative HQ will focus on making a difference to clients by harnessing innovation, entrepreneurship and IP from Beca’s 3,300 staff in key markets through a range of business activities and innovation programmes.

Stefan Korn, CEO of Creative HQ says, "We are very excited to be working with one of New Zealand’s flagship companies and be able to build on a strong legacy of nearly 100 years of Kiwi ingenuity and engineering excellence. The partnership with Beca provides us with an unprecedented opportunity to work with one of the most innovative consultants in Asia Pacific and to launch innovative products and services from NZ to the world."

The partnership will focus on concrete opportunities and entrepreneurial engagements that are jointly delivered to clients.

Llanwyn Smith, Beca’s General Manager - Business, Transport and Technology Services says, ”We are delighted to announce this strategic partnership with Creative HQ that is designed to augment our New Ventures Accelerator, which is our new innovation and commercialisation business unit. We see opportunity to further support our clients by bringing our innovation accelerator framework, the capacity of a dedicated New Ventures team and the combined entrepreneurship experience of Beca and Creative HQ to rapidly help solve their business problems and create exciting opportunities.”

To further this vision, Beca and Creative HQ have identified a range of opportunities in relation to innovation management, corporate acceleration, entrepreneurship and innovation service offerings across Asia-Pacific, and in particular New Zealand, Australia and Singapore.

See: https://www.beca.com/about-us/news-and-media/february-2019-1/beca-and-creative-hq-announce-strategic-innovation

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