Business
Connections between research, science and technology and New Zealand's commercial sector.
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This booklet is designed for SMEs and explains how R&D can benefit businesses and where firms can get assistance with their R&D plans. It includes case studies of 11 New Zealand SMEs that have successfully used R&D to create products and services.
Brochures and websites about government programmes that can help your business increase its research and development (R&D) investment.
Links to government agencies providing financial assistance schemes for business.
Research on business and business growth, 2009.
The R&D tax credit has been repealed with effect from the 2009-10 income year. It remains available for qualifying expenditure on R&D activities carried out in the 2008-09 income year.
This group continues the progress of the Capitalising on Research summit meeting held in late 2006. It consists of senior representatives from a number of sectors involved in research and post-research activities.
Business and Economic Research Limited (BERL) investigated long-term seismic isolation technology and wood drying technology to show the economic impact from R&D of general scientific interest. (2004)
This report is an overview of global trends in biotechnology. It focuses on developments in biotechnology for health, primary production, industrial, environmental and defence applications.
Capitalising on Research was a flagship national summit on access to innovation for business growth, organised by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, in collaboration with Business New Zealand.