ecentre provides an innovative ecosystem, a hub for entrepreneurs and start-up companies. Becoming part of ecentre’s ecosystem enables entrepreneurs to have access to advice from on-site experts, subject matter experts from Massey University and mentors from the local region. Established in 2001, the ecentre is the business incubator based at Massey University. ecentre is located in the Bob Tindall Building on the Massey University campus on Auckland’s North Shore. The concept for ecentre was driven by Prof. Chris Kirk and Prof. Ian Watson from Massey University, together with support from the North Shore City Council and The Tindall Foundation.

WHAT WE BELIEVE IN
We believe that entrepreneurs will bring significant prosperity to New Zealand by continuously creating & developing innovative ideas and taking them to market.
We regard entrepreneurship as a profession and as such it is an exciting, challenging and rewarding career choice.
We believe that entrepreneurship can be learned through training, coaching and experience and by focusing on the entrepreneur and building their capability to create multiple businesses; we create a more sustainable ecosystem.

WHAT WE DO
We support and develop professional entrepreneurs with an innovation ecosystem so they can create successful global companies.
We do this by providing a supportive environment, flexible facilities and engagement with our networks and partners. We offer programmes which provide a structured approach to validating and developing business ideas to create successful new companies.