NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

6 JULY

-- technology appraisal services to small and medium sized firms;

-- access to new technology and to sources of guidance and assistance to firms commencing technology based projects.

Mechanisms of Support for the TechLink Scheme

The foundation will allocate funds to support projects that meet the scheme’s objectives. These funds can be allocated to a firm (or a group of firms). The foundation may require a firm(s) to fund up to 50% of the project costs. The project should be aimed at increasing awareness and understanding, by firms, of the value that technological innovation can deliver to that firm or other firms.

The scheme will target support to those projects that, in the foundation’s view, best meet the following criterion:

• have the potential to create awareness of, and facilitate access to, technology or technological capabilities that are new to the firm(s).

The foundation will have full discretion to manage the allocation of funds for the scheme in a way that achieves the outcome and objectives of the scheme. The type of projects that could be supported may include, but are not limited to, the following examples:

• publication, promotion and pro-active delivery of technology success stories and case studies on a national and a regional basis; or

• delivery of technology information and advisory services (including planning) to firms commencing technology-based projects; or

• facilitating networks of firms based around technology or with the potential to do so.

All projects funded pursuant to this notice must comply with the terms of the notice published in the New Zealand Gazette on 22 June 2000, No. 67, page 1485, that records the Voluntary Moratorium Discussed Between the Government and Persons Involved in the Field Testing or Release of Genetically Modified Organisms.

Funding to be Allocated

Funding for the scheme will be $2.694 million (G.S.T. inclusive) in 2000/01 financial year. Funds available for the scheme will be published each year in the Estimates of Appropriations.

The foundation will have the discretion to allocate up to 10% of funding for this scheme:

• to the Technology for Business Growth scheme or the Technology for Industry Fellowship Scheme; or

• between the Technology for Business Growth Scheme and the Technology for Industry Fellowship Scheme if all schemes involved in the allocation are appropriated within the same non departmental output class under the Public Finance Act 1989.

The Minister of Research, Science and Technology’s written approval is required before the foundation can allocate 10% or more than 10% of the scheme to any other scheme issued by the Minister of Research, Science and Technology under section 8A of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology Act 1990.

Period of Operation

The scheme will commence operation on 1 July 2000 and is estimated to continue for a period of 5 years from 1 July 2000.

Monitoring Agency

Monitoring of the scheme, including implementation of this notice by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology and the extent to which the scheme achieves its stated objectives, will be carried out by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology.

Dated at Wellington on the 22nd day of June 2000.

PETE HODGSON, Minister of Research, Science and Technology.

A firm is defined as a body corporate or other entity that has a legal personality or existence distinct from those of its members (including sole traders) and is resident in New Zealand. For the purposes of this scheme, a firm excludes any Crown owned body corporate or other entity (including but not limited to those that are governed by the Education Act 1989, or the Local Government Act 1974 or the Crown Research Institutes Act 1992).

A small and medium sized firm is defined as a firm that has an annual turnover of up to and including $50 million.

Notice of Revocation of Ministerial Scheme and Introduction of New Ministerial Scheme Under Section 8A of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology Act 1990—the Technology for Industry Fellowship Scheme

Direction To: The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (“the foundation”).

Under section 8A of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology Act 1990, I direct the foundation to allocate funds in accordance with the Technology for Industry Fellowship Scheme (“the scheme”) specified in this notice.

This notice revokes and replaces the notices dated 17 August 1995, 1 August 1996 and 10 July 1997 which established and amended the Graduates in Industry Fellowships Scheme.

Nature of the Scheme

The scheme supports science and technology-based projects that develop individuals’ skills and knowledge in commercial research and development environments.

The outcome should be an enhanced level of scientific and technology-based human capital in participating firms.

The scheme will target all firms.

Scheme Objective

Projects that meet the scheme’s objective are eligible to receive funds from the foundation.

The scheme’s objective is to increase the level of exposure to, and understanding by, individuals of the commercial research and technological development environment.

Mechanisms of Support

The foundation will use the scheme to allocate funds to:

• provide salary support for the secondment of individuals between a firm and a research provider to undertake a commercially-focussed science or technology project; or

• provide salary support for the placement of individuals, from senior undergraduate to expert level, to undertake a commercially-focussed science or technology project; or

• provide a stipend for an individual to undertake a commercially-focussed science or technology project while undertaking a postgraduate tertiary qualification.

The foundation may require a firm(s) to fund up to 50% of the project costs. More projects may meet the scheme’s objectives than there are funds available. The foundation