“The damage …will show up in a decade, when New Zealand’s deep-tech sector is thinner, its universities are less competitive for global talent, and the high-value industries … have less to build on. By then, nobody will connect the dots back to the year the seed bank was raided to fund the harvest.”
New Zealand's flagship discovery research fund is running its final round before being absorbed into a government-directed system. The 29% funding cut lands on a country that already spends half the O...
