Does throwing more money into business R&D always create innovative new products and services? New research suggests the picture is […]
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Budget 2015: R&D funding in the NZ Herald
Hamish Fletcher, the New Zealand Herald‘s business reporter, looks at the possible outcomes for the science sector ahead of today’s […]
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Election 2014 – SMC science Q&A with political parties
The Science Media Centre put questions on key science-related issues to the political parties ahead of the General Election scheduled […]
Continue readingIBM indexes New Zealand innovation
IBM today released its second Innovation Index revealing that New Zealand’s overall innovation rate increased three per cent in the four […]
Continue readingInnovation – what can we learn from Europe?
Innovation has become a major touchstone for policymakers and scientists as New Zealand makes changes to some of its state […]
Continue readingRefuse the status quo – innovation researcher
Writing in the Press, Prof John Fairweather of Lincoln University shares some of his insights into how innovation works in […]
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When it comes to supporting R&D, the New Zealand government talks the talk, but are its initiatives working? Writing for […]
Continue readingResearch and the 2011 Budget
On Thursday the government will announce their 2011 budget for New Zealand. The New Zealand Herald‘s Hamish Fletcher caught up […]
Continue readingMedia Coverage: Key to boost RS&T funding
Earlier today, Prime Minister John Key announced that the government will be spending some $321 million on Research, Science and […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Pat Pilcher: NZahead report is right – we could do better
Patrick Pilchar writes, in an opinion piece in the New Zealand Herald, about New Zealand’s poor innovation performance, most recently […]
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