Harnessing modern and Maori science. (Notebook).

A traditional indigenous vegetable which could be the start of a new gourmet food industry and the enhanced use of large tracts of Maori land are just two science-based developments to come under the spotlight at a recent Maori Innovation Summit.

A number of new Maori business ventures, each of which involves sophisticated technologies, were unveiled at New Zealand's first Maori innovation Summit held in Wellington late in June.

The summit, which aimed to kickstart more Maori companies and collectives into applying ingenuity, innovation and technology to thei