16 SEPTEMBER 2004

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 121

3009

Outputs comprise the following:

● Research whose primary objective is to advance food and fibre-based industries and related sectors
through innovation. Research portfolios will lead to new products, processes and services that enhance
the competitiveness of these industries and sectors.
$123,528,500

● Research whose primary objective is to advance manufacturing and services industries and sectors
through innovation. Assists manufacturing and services industries and sectors to innovate, and includes
research on the broad factors affecting business and economic life.
$30,581,600

● Research for the development of infrastructure to underpin economic development. Assists infrastructure
services, such as communications, energy, water and waste, to innovate cost-effectively. It also includes
research on New Zealand’s mineral wealth and understanding of and responses to risks faced from
New Zealand’s physical hazards.
$33,698,900

● Research consortia to facilitate public/private research partnerships that provide early user engagement
and increase private investment in New Zealand. Research investment will be made through user-led
research consortia in partnership with research providers.
$17,072,000

As it invests, the foundation will give priority to portfolios of research that meet the following criteria:

● Scientific and technological quality;

● potential benefit to New Zealand through innovation;

● contribution to boosting competitiveness of New Zealand industries and sectors; or contribution to developing a robust
infrastructure to underpin economic development;

● clearly defined partnerships and pathways to implementation of the research outcomes; and

● potential to build scientific and technological capability and to increase the level of innovation within user groups.

Output Class—Māori Knowledge and Development Research

Description

● The Māori Knowledge and Development Research output class provides funding to develop Māori
research capability, evolve Māori knowledge and, hence, develop knowledge for the benefit of the nation.
The output class aims to support research that is for Māori, by Māori and which may employ Māori
methodologies.
$2,698,000

As it invests, the foundation will give priority to portfolios of research that meet the following criteria:

● Research, science and technology programmes that encourage excellence in the delivery of knowledge for the nation
through research activities envisaged in the description;

● advancing Māori knowledge and knowledge that addresses specific issues and needs; and

● consolidating the Māori knowledge base and broadening and deepening the Māori research skill base.

For the proportion of the funding that is jointly managed by the foundation and the Health Research Council, the foundation
will work closely and constructively with the HRC to ensure benefit for Māori.

Output Class—Social Research

Description

● This output class supports public good research, science and technology that improve societal wellbeing.
The foundation will invest in science and research programmes that have the greatest potential to have a
positive impact on families, communities, culture and identity.
$6,592,000

Outputs comprise the following:

● Research on the structures, characteristics and dynamics of population change and identity;

● research on families and households in New Zealand; and

● research focusing on public life.

As it invests, the foundation will give priority to portfolios of research that meet the following criteria:

● Scientific and technological quality;

● research that addresses the seven key knowledge theme areas developed by the Ministry of Social Development, in
conjunction with the Minister of Research, Science and Technology; and

● contribution to improving social well-being.

Output Class—Environmental Research

Description

This output class supports public good research, science and technology that enhance the understanding and management of
our environment. The research contributes to the understanding of species, habitats and ecosystems, and the human, pest and
other influences to which they are exposed.

Research outputs provide the knowledge that underpins the management, protection and enhancement of natural ecosystems.
Research on sustainable use of ecosystems and the productive sector’s environment is also included as is the attention to the
social impacts of new technologies. These outputs contribute to an understanding of the global biophysical environment and
the impact of atmospheric, climatic and other changes to natural, agricultural and other human ecosystems.

The foundation is to focus on the following priorities—

Of the $5.925 million new funding this year, this will be directed to:

● upgrading and maintaining nationally significant databases and collections including an increase (for 2004/05 only) of
$750,000 to upgrade existing databases; and

● supporting air quality and marine biosecurity research.