New Zealand Gazette – 2013 – No. 13

Page 442

✨ Technology Transfer Voucher Criteria and Crown Solicitor Appointment

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 13

7 FEBRUARY 2013

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Only a business or a group of businesses are eligible to receive funding via this tool. A business or group of businesses may nominate a representative to receive funding.
A business must be a person or entity that is in business and resident in New Zealand, and:
- where a group of businesses are applying together, each of the businesses involved must meet these criteria.
- where a business or businesses nominate a representative to receive the funding, the business or businesses must meet these criteria. A nominated representative does not need to meet these criteria.
Businesses may not be an entity established under or governed by the Education Act 1989, Crown Research Institutes Act 1992, Local Government Act 2002, Local Government (Auckland Council) Act 2009 or the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000; or an entity that is 50% or more owned by one or more of those types of entities, and:
- where a group of businesses may receive funding together, such groups may not include one or more of the above types of entities; and
- where a nominated representative may receive funding, these entities may, however, act as nominated representatives.
Where a nominated representative may receive funding, the nominated representative may only receive funding when Callaghan Innovation is satisfied that those funds will ultimately be used or applied by or for the benefit of the nominating business or businesses.

This initiative will support research and development activities that respond to business needs. The research and development activities will be undertaken by an accredited research organisation.

JUDGEMENT CRITERIA

Callaghan Innovation must assess proposals against the following criteria:

1. Project coherence and credibility	2. Project results in technology transfer
Is the R&D project proposal coherent and credible?	Will the project result in the transfer of technology and related knowledge between research organisation and business?
Is the requested size of Voucher credible given the proposed R&D project?

3. Project improves linkages	4. Business R&D capability
Will the project improve linkages between the business and the research organisation?	Does the business have limited R&D capability and lack the specific in house research capability to carry out a piece of research?

5. Problem definition and benefit from research organisation	6. Business organisational capability
Does the business have a well defined problem or idea that will benefit from the R&D expertise and services in a research organisation?	Does the business have, or have the ability to develop, the organisational capabilities required to manage their R&D relationship with a research organisation and to apply the R&D results in their business?

WEIGHTINGS FOR JUDGEMENT CRITERIA

Callaghan Innovation must apply equal weighting to each of the above judgement criteria.

PARAMETERS SPECIFIC TO THIS INITIATIVE

For the Technology Transfer Voucher, the funding allocated by Callaghan Innovation is not more than 50% of the proposed cost of research and development.

Dated at Wellington this 4th day of February 2013.

New Zealand Gazette Index

New Zealand Gazette – 2013 – No. 13

Page 442

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 13

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

JUDGEMENT CRITERIA

WEIGHTINGS FOR JUDGEMENT CRITERIA

PARAMETERS SPECIFIC TO THIS INITIATIVE

Crown Law

Crown Solicitors Regulations 1994

Appointment of Crown Solicitor

Online Sources for this page:

Gazette.govt.nz — NZ Gazette 2013, No 13

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🏭 Technology Transfer Voucher Policy Objectives (continued from previous page)

⚖️ Appointment of Crown Solicitor

Third-Party Content

NZ Gazette Sources

Additional Sources

PDF Icon

Masthead