A snapshot of the key trends from May 2021 to October 2021.

The Hackathon took place over the weekend of 17-18 April, 2021 and was attended by 230 students across 68 teams at universities throughout New Zealand.

Developing an Energy Strategy for New Zealand is an action from Te hau mārohi ki anamata, the Government’s first emissions reduction plan.

In this Briefing we have traversed two different trends to explore how businesses are approaching their role in society, and how the ways that they organise themselves might change in future.

The $50 million Regional Events Fund is designed to stimulate domestic tourism and travel between regions through holding events. This is intended to support the tourism and events sector, and replace some of the spending from international tourists due to the border closure as a result of COVID-19.

Chapters 2 and 3 of the Issues Paper included specific consultation questions which we considered to be important for informing the development of the gas transition plan. The responses to these questions are summarised here.

Examines evidence about the effectiveness of policies aimed at enhancing the resilience of economic systems.

Established in 2016, the New Zealand-China Research Collaboration Centres are a mechanism to align existing cooperation and build new connections between New Zealand and Chinese researchers. In 2020, their mandate was expanded to include the coordination and support of joint research projects with China.

Advanced Energy Technology is technology at the frontier of innovation, with the potential to advance and disrupt global energy markets.