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In-year payments to boost Kiwi innovation

28 March 2023

Applications are now open for a new government initiative to provide businesses with faster and more frequent access to the Research and Development Tax Incentive (RDTI).

Science and innovation

Electric Vehicle charging strategy: Charging our future

22 March 2023

The Ministry of Transport and MBIE are running a consultation on a draft Electric Vehicle charging strategy: Charging Our Future. The strategy sets out the Government’s long-term strategic vision for Aotearoa New Zealand’s national Electric Vehicle charging infrastructure system.

Energy Energy and natural resources

Local research and innovation in RNA technology set to ramp up

22 March 2023

Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland have been tasked to develop a plan for a government-funded RNA Development Platform.

Science and innovation Science funding

Migrant Community Reference Group established

21 March 2023

10 people representing perspectives from migrant communities across Aotearoa New Zealand have been announced for the newly established Migrant Community Reference Group.

Immigration

Topics announced for NZ-NASA collaborative research

17 March 2023

Key focus areas for collaborative research between New Zealand and the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) were announced today.

Science funding Science and innovation Space Agency

NZ Battery Project moves to next phase

16 March 2023

The Government has announced it will progress to the next stage of the NZ Battery Project, looking in more detail at the viability of pumped hydro as well as an alternative, multi-technology approach.

Energy Energy and natural resources

New Zealand Space Scholarship recipients announced

15 March 2023

Recipients of the 2023 New Zealand Space Scholarship and Alexander J. Willoughby Fellowship, which support internships at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), were announced in a ceremony at Parliament today.

Space Agency

New plan to transform Aotearoa New Zealand’s advanced manufacturing sector

13 March 2023

A plan to accelerate the growth and transformation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s advanced manufacturing was launched in Auckland on 13 March 2023.

New record renewable share of electricity generation in New Zealand

09 March 2023

The renewable share of electricity generation is at its highest level on record, according to data published today by MBIE.

Energy and natural resources

Devoted to combating human trafficking

08 March 2023

This International Women’s Day, Rebecca Kingi from Immigration New Zealand shares her empowering story of working with the Trafficking in Persons team.

Immigration

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