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Newly refurbished Waikato IDI Lab a catalyst for fostering academic-industry collaboration
The University of Waikato re-opened its newly refurbished Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) Lab; the lab is the only one in the country based at a university campus and is therefore, uniquely placed as a catalyst for innovation in research within the tertiary sector.