'New Zealand’s premier blue-skies fund is being wound down and folded into a new government-directed structure designed to deliver measurable economic impact.
That sounds reasonable. It is not. The economic impact everyone wants is downstream of the discovery work being defunded.'
IIML
#marsdenshmarsden I guess 🪦
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...