Research Funding Criteria




NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 146

5 DECEMBER 2012

Schedule 3

Targeted Research Investment Mechanism

1 Specific policy objectives

1.1 Targeted Research is designed to support purpose-driven research, science, and technology, and related activities aligned with national priorities that generate economic, environmental or social benefits for New Zealand. To increase the impact of the national science portfolio, knowledge transfer is an important part of such programmes of research, science, and technology, or related activities.

1.2 Targeted Research addresses New Zealand’s strategic needs, challenges and opportunities.

2 Specific assessment criteria

A proposal for Targeted Research funding that has been assessed as meeting the eligibility criteria for Science-led contestable funding must be assessed against the following specific assessment criteria, which are all weighted equally:

Benefits to New Zealand Risk Management or Success Factors
Outcome benefits to New Zealand Implementation Pathway
Key Question: Key Question:
To what extent would the proposed research, To what extent does the proposal have a credible
science, and technology, or related activities pathway to implementation?
create benefits for New Zealand?
Benefits to New Zealand of research, Ability to deliver results (outputs) of
science, and technology, or related research, science, and technology, or related
activities activities
Key Questions: Key Question:
What is the quality of the proposed research, What is the likelihood that the proposed outputs of
science, and technology, or related activities the research, science, and technology, or related
? activities will be achieved?
To what extent would the proposed research,
science, and technology, or related activities
generate new knowledge?


Next Page →



Online Sources for this page:

Gazette.govt.nz PDF NZ Gazette 2012, No 146





✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🎓 Specific Assessment Criteria for Targeted Research Investment Mechanism (continued from previous page)

🎓 Education, Culture & Science
Research Funding, Science, Technology, Innovation, Assessment Criteria