News and releases

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is celebrating 25 years of investment in excellent, science through the Marsden Fund, New Zealand’s premier fund for investigator-led research.

In late 2018 we issued a Call for Proposals for a Data Science Research Platform. After careful consideration we did not continue with this investment approach, but remain committed to an investment in data science.

The anticipated review of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) is now underway, and will run until 2020.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has signed a $49 million investment contract with Antarctica New Zealand to deliver underpinning, longer-term Antarctic science with critical benefits for New Zealand.

New Zealand’s 11 National Science Challenges, which are working to address some of the country’s biggest science-based challenges, have received $422.5m in a second tranche of funding.

On the eve of calling for registrations to attend a series of regional Māori business meetings in Tauranga, Gisborne, Hastings and Nelson, applications are also invited for funding in the 2019 round of Te Pūnaha Hihiko: Vision Mātauranga Capability Fund.

Mā te rongo ka mōhio
Mā te mōhio ka mārama
Mā te mārama ka mātau
Mā te mātau ka ora

Through perception comes awareness
Through awareness comes understanding
Through understanding comes knowledge
Through knowledge comes well-being

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has signed a new agreement with Europe’s largest aeronautics and space company, Airbus, committing to work together to develop capability in New Zealand’s emerging Unmanned Aircraft (UA) and space data technology sectors.

The Government has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on hydrogen with Japan as both countries work to transition away from a reliance on fossil fuels.

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) today announced the Call for Proposals to the 2019 round of the Endeavour Fund, New Zealand’s largest contestable research and science fund.