Election 2020 - Party Policies - Science and Research
25th Jul 20, 5:56am
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Science and Research
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- Significantly increase total investment in RS&T and reduce organisational complexity, transaction costs and overheads associated with funding decisions and research delivery.
- Provide greater employment security for researchers, including base funding of salaries.
- Expand the range of time frames over which research can be funded to include both the very short term and the long term.
- Introduce clear ethical investment guidelines for the Government's venture capital funds.
- Change the existing sector-focused and corporatised science model in Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) and universities into one that that enables crossdisciplinary research, focuses on public good and economic transformation, and is more enabling and empowering of science and innovation.
- Require environmental education and ethics to be parts of all scientific programs of study, including science education.
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- Establishing a Minister for Technology.
- Offering 1000 tertiary scholarships per year targeted at students from low decile schools to undertake science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) degrees.
- Establishing a STEM-focused partnership school and restoring funding for specialist ICT graduate schools.
- Introducing a fast-track technology skills visa.
- Investing $1 billion in technology infrastructure upgrades with the aim of achieving 100 Mbps uncapped internet speeds for everyone using Ultra-Fast Broadband.
- Establishing three targeted investment funds for tech start-ups worth $200 million each, with the cost split evenly between Government and the private sector.
- Developing the world’s most tech-friendly regulation.
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- Fund polytechs to deliver fast responses to solve company problems.
- Ensure NZ has the skills to innovate by investing in polytechs, reining in the universities, and fine-tuning migration.
- Set national priorities for research funding by taking into account New Zealand’s economic, social, and environmental needs, striking the right balance between discovery and applied research.
- Measure the success of research funding on how the results were taken up and applied by industry – rewarding performance, not promise.
- Tweak migration to make sure those who have the skills we need can get through the immigration system.
- Increase business investment in research & development (R&D) up to the goal of 2% of our GDP.
- Ensure businesses have all the support they need to complete the full innovation cycle, and can access the money to innovate and grow. We will work with banks, angel investors, large firms and the start-up community to develop partnerships better connecting us nationally and internationally.
- Set up a government backed Innovation Fund that everyday Kiwis like you and me can invest in, to help power the economy forward.
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