NZ Budget 2025: science investment must increase as a proportion of GDP for NZ to innovate and compete
- Written by Nicola Gaston, Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Shutterstock/Olivier Le QueinecA 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.
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