We identify difficulties that athletes, sports and systems are experiencing and use innovative solutions to achieve measurable performance improvements.
Our innovation and research team is dedicated to finding ways to bridge gaps and find gains for performance advantage. We work in collaboration with athletes, coaches and NSOs, implementing innovative solutions, products and technology to increase New Zealand athletes’ chances of success on the world stage.
Additional funding and resource are set to expand our work into research-focused innovation – a new area of work about finding answers that will have the greatest impact in helping multiple sports and their athletes perform better.
In deciding whether an innovative project will provide a competitive advantage, the team follows five guiding principles:
Guiding Principles
| Performance | Ensuring each idea has an explicit link to medals |
| Priority | Prioritising demand from the athlete, coach or high performance director |
| Champion | Ensuring projects have potential champions |
| Evidence | Promoting a model-driven paradigm (evidence based) |
| Impact | The ability to measure proposed and actual impact |