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Moving Beyond R&D – New Zealand Herald
Research & development funding is not a magic bullet, say Associate Professor Suvi Nenonen and Professor Kaj Storbacka, from the […]
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On Radio New Zealand’s Nine to Noon show, Mary Wilson probes the government’s fledgling scientific Crown Entity, Callaghan Innovation, seeking […]
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Tangible Media Publisher Vincent Heeringa describes an interesting German university-industry partnership for Idealog. An excerpt (read in full here): Catalysing […]
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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 readingNZ Herald: Anthony Doesburg – Broking a marriage of business and academia
Anthony Doesburg writes about a recent Auckland event bringing universities and businesspeople together to showcase university R&D. Sir Ray Avery, […]
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ONLINE MEDIA BRIEFING: Tues 29 Jun 11 am (NZT) — Statistics New Zealand will release its latest biennial report on […]
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Christopher Adams writes in the New Zealand Herald about the Materials Accelerator – a new programme designed to help commercialise […]
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Brian Fallow of the New Zealand Herald reports on a paper from the New Zealand Institute which says that the […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Rick Boven – NZ poor at transforming science into business
Rick Boven, director of the privately funded think-tank the New Zealand Institute, argues that New Zealand must improve its ability […]
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