The Innovators Residency Programme
Course details
| Domestic tuition | $5,995 per year |
|---|---|
| International tuition | $5,995 |
| NZQF Level | 8 |
About the course
The Innovator's Residency NZ is not a tour. Not a lecture. It's an immersive collision of learning, making and bold thinking where innovation meets adventure in Aotearoa New Zealand.
This isn't another educational programme. It's a 10-week innovation immersion for globally curious minds who demand cutting-edge learning and life-changing experiences. No student visa. No relocation. Pure transformation in the world's most forward-thinking environment.
- Disruptive Technologies in Practice Forget case studies. Get your hands on the technologies reshaping our world. AI. Automation. Blockchain. You won't just learn these tools—you'll challenge them, master them, and reimagine them.
- Entrepreneurial Thinking and Innovation Strategy Not theory. The toolkit of transformation. Build the entrepreneurial mindset that turns ideas into action. Validate. Design. Create. Real-world capabilities used by today's boldest innovators.
Our Play Lab isn't a classroom. It's a high-tech battlefield for ideas. One day each week, you'll command:
- 3D printers transforming concepts into reality
- AI tools challenging creative boundaries
- Robotics, IoT and automation making algorithms work for you
- Neural interfaces fusing human and machine
- Rapid prototyping and creative innovation tool kit for building concepts into reality
- This is where ideas get messy, real, and unstoppable. Not perfection—fearless experimentation.
We create learning experiences. Connecting you with creators and founders. Enter working innovation hubs. Meet active investors. These aren't presentations—they're conversations that rewrite your future.
Entry requirements
You need to be 21 or older, and have either a degree or 3+ years of work experience in a related field.
If your previous study wasn’t in English, in one of the 7 recognised countries by NZQA, you’ll need proof of English proficiency such as IELTS 6.5 or an equivalent test taken in the last two years.
About the provider
We're on a mission to make education exactly what you need for the real-world challenges you want to solve. We do it differently so you can make a sustainable, impactful change on the world. Forget the old school. Join the new youniversity.
WHO WE ARE
What is academyEX?
We provide innovative learning programmes that build relevant skills and capabilities to match the requirements of our constantly changing world. Across our faculties & programmes we redefine learning and professional development so you can step into the future with confidence and an ability to create impactful futures.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
Learn today, apply tomorrow. With us, expect to get skills, knowledge and connections that you can use now, and to help guide your decisions for the future. With a context not content approach, you apply your practice, your environment or your challenges to your learning. We’re all for flexibility and our stackable learning approach delivers. If you’ve got a master’s degree in sight, with academyEX you can create your pathway there. Pick from a number of micro-credentials and postgraduate certificates to tailor your knowledge and skills in specialised areas and top it off with a real-world project to gain a master’s degree that recognises your capabilities, your expertise and delivers outcomes you can use. academyEX (including faculties The Mind Lab, Tech Futures Lab and Earth Futures Lab) is a Tertiary Education Organisation registered by the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) to deliver qualifications approved by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) under the provision of the Education and Training Act 2000. Based on our NZQA External Evaluation and Review (EER) we have been classified as a Category 1 Education Organisation. This means that NZQA are highly confident in our educational performance and self-assessment capability.