8th October 2026 Government / ScienceThe government is pushing ahead with its overhaul of the national science system, releasing the investment blueprints that will govern public spending across its four core research areas.
8th October 2026 Government / ScienceScience leaders warn priority-setting and budget cuts risk undermining New Zealand’s deep-tech pipeline.
1st July 2026 Funding / ScienceUniversity researchers will receive a $40.68m boost in support to help commercialise their innovations, alongside new Intellectual Property rules taking effect from 1 July, according to the government.
10th June 2026 Funding / ScienceThe government’s new Science Investment Plan maps the shifting of $122m into advanced technology funding at the expense of the three other priority area pillars including primary industries and bioeconomy.
28th April 2026 Endeavour Fund / ScienceThe government is bypassing a new contestable round for the 2026 Endeavour Fund, opting instead to extend existing contracts as it overhauls the national science system.
7th April 2026 Funding / ScienceThe government is shifting science spending, announcing a proposed $122m a year increase for advanced technologies delivered via a staged reallocation of existing science funding, over three years.
29th January 2026 Funding / ScienceThe inaugural Research Funding New Zealand board has been established as part of the government’s plan to streamline science research funding into a single independent body.
15th October 2025 Funding / ScienceThe government has announced plans to establish a single science funding body, to be known as Research Funding New Zealand.
22nd August 2025 Government / ScienceThe Health Select Committee has extended its reporting deadline on the controversial Gene Technology Bill – again.
19th May 2025 Government / ScienceThe government has named three of its new Public Research Organisations, including the one that will bring together the four existing Crown Research Institutes that most directly support food system stakeholders.
1st April 2025 Plant & Food Research / SciencePlant & Food Research boss Mark Piper says his top priority is to keep delivering for customers while the details of the country’s new science system are ironed out.
13th March 2025 PROs / ScienceNew Zealand’s three new Public Research Organisations are on track to be in place by early October, according to an update from the government on its science reform programme.
