New Zealand Research
New Zealand Research
The OECD’s report on the New Zealand Innovation System stated that New Zealand has “developed world-class competencies in many areas, especially but not exclusively in agricultural and health research”.
New Zealand has world-class scientific capability across a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to:
- Biotechnology
- Geology
- Oceanography
- Meteorology
- Biology
- Clinical medicine
New Zealand also excels in research fields such as:
- Software
- Telecommunications
- Agriculture and agricultural machinery
- Horticultural research and development
MoRST also recently identified six priorities for Transformation Research, Science and Technology (TRST):
- Future foods
- High tech platforms
- Innovation in health delivery
- Environmental sensing for real-time resource management
- Making renewable energy work for New Zealand
- Transformational cities and towns
Further Information:
- MoRST Introduction to the New Zealand RS&T System
- The New Zealand Government’s 2008 Agenda for RS&T
- MoRST Statement of Intent 2008-2011
- MoRST ‘Roadmaps for Science’
- Public Sector Financing of Research 2007/08 Report