Vision Mātauranga: Unlocking the Innovation Potential of Māori Knowledge, Resources and People

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Unlocking the Innovation Potential of Māori Knowledge, Resources and People

Vision – to envisage, to look forward, to consider new possibilities

Mātauranga – knowledge, to know, a knowledgeable person

Vision Mātauranga – to envision knowledge, to think about new ways of doing things, to find answers, to solve problems

The Mission Statement of Vote Research, Science and Technology

To inspire and assist New Zealanders to create a better future through research and innovation.

The Mission Statement of Vision Mātauranga

To unlock the innovation potential of Māori knowledge, resources and people to assist New Zealanders to create a better future.

We are a nation with huge potential. We recognise that potential in Māori. We are committed to a bold agenda and working with you to realise that potential.
Rt Hon. Helen Clark, Prime Minister
Hui Taumata, 1 March 2005

Contents

  • 1.0 Vision Mātauranga: An Overview
    • 1.1 What are We Trying to Achieve?
    • 1.2 What is Vote Research, Science and Technology?
  • 2.0 Vision Mātauranga: Four Research Themes
    • 2.1 Indigenous Innovation: Contributing to Economic Growth through Distinctive R&D
    • 2.2 Taiao: Achieving Environmental Sustainability through Iwi and Hapū Relationships with Land and Sea
    • 2.3 Hauora/Oranga: Improving Health and Social Wellbeing
    • 2.4 Mātauranga: Exploring Indigenous Knowledge and RS&T
  • 3.0 Innovation Potential: Building and Maintaining Research Capacity and Capability
    • 3.1 Excellence
    • 3.2 Outcomes Sought for the RS&T System
    • 3.3 Diverse Research Scenarios
    • 3.4 Māori-Relevant Research Centres, Programmes and Organisations
    • 3.5 New and Emerging Capacities and Capabilities: Research Conducted by Māori Organisations
    • 3.6 The Circumstances of Māori Enterprises
  • 4.0 Appendices
    • 4.1 Research and Development (R&D)
    • 4.2 Funding and Investment Agents: The Funders of Research
    • 4.3 Distinctive Aspects of Māori Research
    • 4.4 Glossary of Terms
    • 4.5 References

Summary

All New Zealanders wish to live in healthy and sustainable communities and in harmony with our environments. We seek a good standard of living and hope that we may pass on a healthy and vibrant Aotearoa New Zealand to succeeding generations.

Research, science and technology (RS&T) is a set of knowledge creation and application activities that addresses the needs of our nation. RS&T also makes important contributions to national economic growth and sustainable environmental outcomes.

There are many opportunities for Māori communities to make distinctive contributions to research, science and technology. These opportunities lie in the innovation potential of Māori knowledge, people and resources. Vision Mātauranga is a policy framework whose mission is:

to unlock the innovation potential of Māori knowledge, resources and people to assist New Zealanders to create a better future.

It was created to provide strategic direction for research of relevance to Māori, funded through Vote Research, Science and Technology.

Vision Mātauranga: Unlocking the Innovation Potential of Māori Knowledge, Resources and People:

  • is a creative and exciting thread that will be woven into Vote Research, Science and Technology over a period of some years
  • is concerned with discovering the distinctive contribution that Māori knowledge, resourcesand people can make to RS&T
  • is a policy framework that provides strategic direction for research of relevance to Māori,funded through Vote Research, Science and Technology
  • describes four distinctive research themes of importance to our nation
  • advocates for innovation potential and opportunity – many people will be involved in theresearch designed to produce and apply the knowledge envisaged by Vision Mātauranga
  • is about creating an environment in which distinctive activities and products of which thenation can be proud are fashioned from the materials of the Māori world – its knowledge, resources and people.

Vision Mātauranga has relevance for all New Zealanders. Whilst this framework concerns distinctive issues, challenges and opportunities arising within Māori communities, Vision Mātauranga encourages research whose outcomes make contributions to New Zealand as a whole.

Vision Mātauranga is about innovation, opportunity and the creation of knowledge.

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