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NZ Budget 2025: science investment must increase as a proportion of GDP for NZ to innovate and compete

Shutterstock/Olivier Le Queinec A lack of strategy and research funding – by both the current and previous governments – has been well documented, most comprehensively in the first report by the Science System Advisory Group (SSAG), released late last year. If there is one word that sums up the current state of New Zealand’s research sector, it is scarcity. As the report summarises: We have an underfunded system by any international comparison. This parsimony has led to harmful inter-institutional competition … Continue reading “NZ Budget 2025: science investment must increase as a proportion of GDP for NZ to innovate and compete”