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Disclosure Statement: George likes the R&D Survey because there is always one number in there you can use to prove your point. Were you aware that the Beverage and Tobacco Manufacturing sector was New Zealand’s most ambitious with 45% undertaking research to become a dominant player in the market? George also consults on R&D for…

Disclosure statement: George realised, late but a while ago now, that people can’t always tell when he’s joking. Which doesn’t mean things aren’t serious. He has always been a fan of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories, particularly the one about the ‘Stute Fish and the suspenders and unintended consequences. The biggest problems in New Zealand…

The results of the latest MBIE annual contestable science funding round are out here. The results are very much in line with expectations set in the requests for proposals issued in November last year  (which have vanished from the MBIE website) but they do raise some issues of consistency of funding for important areas of…

[I am a big fan of The Conversation; on line comment and views from academics on news issues. Each article is preceded by a Disclosure Statement so here is mine – George Slim first worked in Government in 2003 when the priorities for science investment were: innovative industrial processing and manufacturing, product development, information and…