✨ Research Fund Announcement
31 JANUARY 2011 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 9 203
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Partnerships — support RS&T and related activities that provide for early and ongoing user engagement in RS&T and develop user-capability in engaging productively with researchers.
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Commercialisation and technology and knowledge transfer support — research to increase the stream of commercial prospects from publicly-funded RS&T, and supporting and equipping users to engage with research organisations and applying the results of publicly-funded RS&T.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH FUND
The objective of the Environmental Research Fund is to fund environmental research that underpins the management, use protection and enhancement of species natural ecosystems, land, marine and freshwater resources, climate and atmosphere within New Zealand and Antarctica.
The Fund will support RS&T that is intended to be of benefit to New Zealand.
It is also expected that the Fund will support relevant research that contributes to unlocking the innovation potential of Māori knowledge, resources and people as outlined in the Vision Mātauranga policy framework. International collaboration will be supported where this is relevant and of benefit to the objectives of the Fund.
It is expected that the Fund will encourage research to demonstrate re-use and sharing of data, both within the RS&T system and between it and end-users.
Indicators of Success
If successful the Environmental Research Fund will generate and support the uptake of RS&T that will contribute to:
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enhancing and supporting the ecological functioning, recovery and resilience to threats of New Zealand’s natural and indigenous environments (encompassing land, freshwater and marine ecosystems and their components).
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maintaining and enhancing the environmental knowledge base and informing actions by government and business to enable sustainable management of New Zealand’s natural resources and environment, and mitigate or adapt to the impacts of global processes such as climate change.
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Supporting growth in businesses and industries dependent on the environment.
The above indicators will be measured by the Ministry of Science and Innovation at a sector level and will provide some indication of the success of the Fund.
Nature of the Fund
The Environmental Research Fund will achieve its objectives by supporting RS&T in the following six areas:
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Land and freshwater resources — RS&T that underpins sustainable use of soil and water resources and enhances their productive capacity for current and future generations.
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Climate and atmosphere — RS&T that improves our ability to predict, mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change, and improves our ability to
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