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CRI but are not of sufficient priority to gain funding from the Foundation.

Constraints

NSOF must be applied to Public Good Science and Technology outputs, although not necessarily in the year in which the funding was granted. The test is whether the work would be fundable by the Foundation, i.e. within the scope of the Public Good Science Fund (PGSF), if it met relevance and quality criteria. CRIs have discretion to carry forward unspent funding. NSOF is not be applied to capital purposes e.g. purchase of capital items.

Administration

The Foundation will pay NSOF to each CRI on the basis of pro forma contracts which will not specify in detail the outputs to be produced.

If a CRIs entitlement to NSOF ceases, no further payments will be made and any NSOF funding unexpended at the date of cessation shall be returned to the Foundation.

Level of Funding

Funding is made available to each CRI as set out in the Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand each year. Details of the funding allocations for each CRI in 1995/96 are set out in a tabular form on page 347 of the 1995/96 Estimates.

Period of Operation

The Scheme will operate each year until further notice.

Performance Standards

Contracts between FRST and CRIs for NSOF will specify that the kind and type of outputs provided and the standards of reporting shall be the same as if the funding were from the PGSF.

Reporting

Progress and other reports on work funded by NSOF are to be made to the Foundation in a comparable way to reports required for work funded through the contestable part of the PGSF in respect of timing and content.

A summary of the level and application of NSOF is to be provided each year by each CRI to the Minister for CRIs.

A report on work funded by NSOF is to be included in the reports required to be provided by the Foundation pursuant to the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology Act 1990.

Monitoring

This Scheme will be monitored by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology.

5 Marsden Fund

Published in New Zealand Gazette: 22 March 1995.

In the section headed Nature and objectives of the Scheme the following words are inserted immediately under the heading:

This Scheme is intended to assist in the development of skills relating to research, science and technology and to facilitate research.

In the section headed Funding for allocation, the text is deleted and replaced with the following:

Funds available for allocation in 1995/96 will be $5,574m. In 1996/97, a total of $11.124m has been allocated for this scheme including administrative funding which has yet to be decided.

In the section headed Selection Criteria, the following words are added after the words full cost of proposals:

but if a lesser amount of funding has been requested by the applicant, then this shall not be considered in making allocation decisions.

[A copy of the full text of The Marsden Fund Scheme incorporating these amendments is available from the Ministry of Research, Science and and Technology.]

6 Technology for Business Growth

Published in the New Zealand Gazette: 26 August 1993.

Amendment published: 18 August 1994.

These notices are hereby revoked and replaced by the following:

Technology for Business Growth

The Nature of the Scheme

The Technology for Business Growth Scheme (TBG) is intended to develop, or assist in the development of, skills relating to research, science and technology and to promote or facilitate participation in the development of technologies and the application of the results of research or technological developments.

This scheme is designed especially to catalyse changes in management practices and attitudes towards technology through learning by doing (e.g. by part funding enterprise access to and adoption of technology). Better performing enterprises will increase the possibility of:

• a sustainable and appropriate level of private sector investment in technology creation and adoption;
• enhanced collaboration between public sector research agencies and industry; and ultimately
• enhanced economic performance and employment.

In general, the scheme is intended to assist enterprises that do not use technology competently or strategically in their business activities.

Assistance will be offered in the form of:

• part funding of the placement of scientists and technologists into companies;
• part funding joint research projects between enterprises and suitable research agencies;
• assisting enterprises to access the existing knowledge base, including that generated by the government’s own investment in public good science but not exclusively; and
• assisting enterprises to establish and enhance their own research and technological capability.

Research agencies who might participate in the scheme include:

• Crown Research Institutes
• Government Departments
• Research Associations, and other similar organisations
• Polytechnics
• Universities

The Objectives of the Expanded Technology for Business Growth Scheme

The objectives of the scheme recognise that there are too few firms strategically managing technological innovation, and there are still poor linkages between the private sector and research institutes. The specific objectives of the expanded Technology for Business Growth Scheme are to:

• encourage New Zealand enterprises (particularly those companies that are not strategically managing their technology requirements) to utilise R & D and technology as part of competitive strategy;
• encourage New Zealand enterprises to use the existing technological knowledge base where appropriate, particularly that expertise and capital created by the Government’s investment over the years in public good research; and