The New Zealand Space Scholarship allows successful recipients a unique opportunity to research world-leading space missions and science, during a 3-month internship at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Southern California.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment convened a group of experts to provide advice on strengthening the science, innovation and technology system, including the challenges and aspirations of the sector, and opportunities for growth. This group has now finished its work.
The government is introducing a national Intellectual Property (IP) management policy that gives more rights to researchers to commercialise their own inventions.
3 new future-focused science organisations, formed by merging and refocusing New Zealand’s 7 Crown Research Institutes, have been in place since 1 July 2025. These organisations will concentrate on key areas of national importance to deliver a science system that is more connected, more commercially focused, and better aligned with the needs of New Zealand.
Research Funding New Zealand is a new independent board, being established to consolidate funding decision makers across the science, innovation and technology system.
Cabinet paper seeking to submit the Electricity (Low Fixed Charge Tariff Option for Domestic Consumers) Amendment Regulations 2025 to the Executive Council.