New model could involve baseline institutional funding and mission-led funding for national priorities
Science research funding in New Zealand may move to a different model under changes being considered by research and innovation minster Megan Woods.
At a 10 November webinar on a “green paper” by Woods (pictured) on science funding reform, her deputy, Paul Stocks, said New Zealand was an “outlier” globally in the way it provided full-cost funding for research activities.