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The main report from some research that explores what business innovation and R&D mean in practice for New Zealand businesses. The research is based on in-depth interviews with 30 diverse businesses.
PDF, 1.1MB, 48 pages
A technical report that focuses on the insights for researchers from a study that explores what business innovation and R&D mean in practice for New Zealand businesses.
PDF, 1.1MB, 35 pages
A summary of some research that explores what business innovation and R&D mean in practice for New Zealand businesses. The research is based on in-depth interviews with 30 diverse businesses.
PDF, 306KB, 4 pages
This paper analyses the relationship between local area housing and population size and migrant-status composition, using population data from the 1986–2013 New Zealand Censuses, house sales price data from Quotable Value New Zealand, rent data from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, and building consents data from Statistics New Zealand.
PDF, 1.1MB, 45 pages
Executive summary - This paper analyses the relationship between local area housing and population size and migrant-status composition, using population data from the 1986–2013 New Zealand Censuses, house sales price data from Quotable Value New Zealand, rent data from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, and building consents data from Statistics New Zealand.
PDF, 160KB, 2 pages
An economic analysis of New Zealand’s plant variety innovation system, as part of the Plant Variety Rights Act 1987 review.
PDF, 1.4MB, 80 pages
Research report commissioned by MBIE to FreshInfo on domestic leisure tourism and current seasonal and spatial patterns in this space.
PDF, 598KB, 68 pages
This survey was conducted by the Small Business Council to help inform the Council’s strategic recommendations to the Minister for Small Business.
PDF, 285KB, 12 pages
This report has been prepared for Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). The report provides an updated assessment of wind energy electricity generation on Stewart Island previously reported in the McCutcheon report in 2016.
PDF, 6.5MB, 53 pages
MBIE’s Digital Economy Team supported the AI Forum to commission independent market research aimed at examining the potential for AI to drive economic growth, its possible labour market impacts, government use of AI, as well as social improvement applications of AI.
PDF, 11MB, 103 pages
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