✨ Science Funding Criteria
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 132 — 30 OCTOBER 2014
See clauses 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 of this schedule for information about what constitutes novelty, market and idea for the purpose of this Schedule.
Securing co-funding, commercial partners or other commercial arrangements is not a requirement for this phase.
Specific Assessment Criteria for Smart Ideas Phase 2 Funding
| Benefits to New Zealand | Risk Management or Success Factors |
|---|---|
| Outcome benefits to New Zealand | Implementation pathway |
| Key Question: | Key Question: |
| To what extent could the proposed research, | To what extent does the proposal outline a |
| science, or technology, or related activities | plan to take the idea to market*? |
| create benefits for New Zealand? | |
| Weighting 25% | Weighting 25% |
| Benefits to New Zealand of research, science, or technology, or related activities | Ability to deliver results (outputs) from research, science, or technology, or related activities |
| Key Questions: | Key Question: |
| How novel is the idea? | What is the likelihood that the proposed |
| What is the quality of the proposed research, | outputs of the research, science, or |
| science, or technology, or related activities? | technology, or related activities will be |
| achieved? | |
| Weighting 30% | Weighting 20% |
See clauses 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 of this schedule for information about what constitutes novelty, a market and an idea for the purpose of this Schedule.
- Other assessment criteria—(1) For the purposes of this notice, an “idea” is a scientific or technological hypothesis, or an approach, or a process, or a product or service in which the idea is embodied. An idea being proposed must be based on sound scientific or technological principles, and this must be substantiated in the proposal put forward.
(2) When considering the novelty of ideas under this schedule, the Science Board must consider:
a. the novelty of the relevant idea itself rather than the novelty of the application of the idea (for example, an obvious extension of previous research, science, or technology, or related activities is not a novel idea for the purposes of this schedule);
b. novelty globally rather than merely in relation to New Zealand;
c. the extent to which the idea is a significant departure from previous ways of thinking and/or previous ideas, or an extension of existing or previous research which would not be obvious to a researcher who is active in the area, or a new and different combination of existing ideas; and
d. to what extent and/or level of confidence the novelty of the idea is substantiated by its absence in existing scientific and patent literature, or elsewhere.
(3) When considering the Implementation pathway assessment criterion for both Phase 1 and Phase 2 Smart Ideas, the Science Board should apply the term “market” in the appropriate context for each research fund. For example, for research benefitting the public sector, there may only be a single or few, rather than many users making up the “market”.
(4) For each proposal the Science Board may allocate no more than $500,000.00 (excluding GST) per year for up to two years.
Schedule 2
Enabling Technologies Investment Mechanism
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Specific policy objectives—(1) Enabling Technologies is designed to:
a. support the development and application of generic technologies that have the potential to be applied in a number of different ways by a number of disparate users across New Zealand’s scientific, business or other communities;
b. accelerate the development of technology platforms that will lead to the development of the technologies described in clause 1.(1)a. of this schedule;
c. support the technology platforms’ short-term, medium-term or long-term development needs and help them
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