Through the 2026 Ara Whaihua funding round of the He Ara Whakahihiko Capability Fund, we received 57 proposals. The Government is investing in 19 work programmes that focus primarily on the pathway to commercialisation and/or economic growth from excellent science.
Listen to New Zealand researchers share their personal career journey and thoughts on what progress has been made to promote diversity and what more can be done.
The following provides a summary of submissions received, following the structure of the consultation document. Where feedback was provided in a free-form fashion via letters and emails, MBIE incorporated this into the survey question to which the content related.