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Te Pūnaha Matatini Cycle Challenge
What: Te Pūnaha Matatini Cycle Challenge - join the team and commit to reducing your climate impact. When: February 1 to 29 Where: From wherever you are across Aotearoa Something wheely good is happening at Te Pūnaha Matatini HQ - Director Shaun Hendy bought a bicycle...
NSSI (Not Such a Silly Idea… but do it properly) #4
By Catherine Webb and Nicola Gujer A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, we started deconstructing the National Statement of Science Investment and considering the claims it makes. Our first blog post ended with an unanswered question – is the proportion of a...
Call for nominations for Software Carpentry Instructor Training
New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) is pleased to announce the offering of a Software Carpentry Instructor Training workshop at the University of Auckland, 28-29 January 2016 and would like to invite candidates from Te Pūnaha Matatini. This workshop kicks off...
Our December Hui
By Dr Rebecca Ford Last week I attended the Te Pūnaha Matatini Investigator Hui in Christchurch. While this is not the first time the group of academic investigators have come together at such events since the launch of the new Centre of Research Excellence in...
NSSI (Not Such a Silly Idea… but do it properly) #3
By Catherine Webb and Nicola Gujer The adventures in data-sleuthing continue. In this blog series, two summer students examine the National Statement of Science Investment 2015-2025, and appraise its use of data. So far we have found one case of...
NSSI (Not Such a Silly Idea… but do it properly) #2
By Catherine Webb and Nicola Gujer In this blog series we pull apart the National Statement of Science Investment and scrutinise its use of data. In case you missed it, in our last post we checked out the graph on page 19, and what it says about New Zealand's...
NSSI (Not Such a Silly Idea… but do it properly) #1
By Catherine Webb and Nicola Gujer In October, the MBIE published an interesting document: the National Statement of Science Investment 2015-2025. It is intended to assess New Zealand’s strengths and weaknesses in research and development, and inform science funding...
Adam Jaffe at ISPIM15
Adam Jaffe, our Theme Leader in Complex Economic and Social Systems is giving one of the keynote speeches at the ISPIM Innovation Summit in Brisbane. The Summit runs 6th - 9th in December The talk is titled: “Golden Goose or Sacred Cow: Evaluating the Impact of Public...
Innovation NZ Symposium
Our Director Shaun Hendy will be attending the Innovation NZ Symposium 2015. It's a symposium on Growing more Innovative and Productive Kiwi firms. Catch Shaun on the panel December 1.
Royal Society of New Zealand Honours Dinner
Last night featured many a reference to the contribution of communities, the partnership that exists between science and the society it serves.
Pierre talks Soil
David Farrier talks with our Soil investigator Pierre Roudier on TV3's Newsworthy. You can watch it here
IP Statistics for Decision Makers
Our Director Shaun Hendy attended the 2015 IP Statistics for Decision Makers (IPSDM) Conference. The conference took place in Vienna, Austria, to celebrate the beginning of the 10th year of PATSTAT, the EPO Worldwide Patent Statistical Database. PATSTAT was launched...