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Crown Research Institutes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the New Zealand state sector, a Crown Research Institute or CRI consists of a State-owned, semi-commercialised entity charged with conducting scientific research. Crown Research Institutes date from 1992, with most having been created out of the old Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). Another CRI, the Institute For Social Research and Development, was disestablished in 1995 after failing to achieve financial viability. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crown_Research_Institutes   (167 words)

CCMAU - Crown Research Institutes Crown research institutes are subject to the Crown Entities Act 2004, the Crown Research Institutes Act 1992 and the Companies Act 1993. The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST) that is primarily responsible for funding science outputs. Of the original 10 CRIs, one CRI, the Institute for Social Research and Development Ltd, was closed in August 1995 due to its failure to establish commercial viability. www.ccmau.govt.nz /crown-research-institutes.html   (426 words)

HortNews - CRIs Flex Their Muscles In Science Carve-Up The country's nine Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) appeared to have been left out in the cold when Prime Minister Helen Clark announced the board in May and said it would play a key role in her Government's growth and innovation policy, announced in February. One pathway would be for universities and crown science companies to form "virtual" centres of excellence bring all the capabilities of particular disciplines to bear on a project. Crown Research Institutes had $482.6 million in revenue during the 2001 financial year, $252.3 million of it from the Government's public funding of science. www.hortnet.co.nz /news/2002/n4441.htm   (830 words)

State of New Zealand's Environment 1997 - Chapter 4: Science reforms [Ministry for the Environment] The Crown Institutes Act 1992 abolished the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the technology division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Meteorological Service, the Forest Research Institute and the Department of Health's communicable diseases centre, and replaced them with ten Crown Research Institutes. The Ministry of Research, Science and Technology was created in 1989 to advise the government on the overall policy framework, priorities and funding for research, science and technology, and to provide contract management services to the Minister for the implementation of funding. The Crown Research Institutes obtain their money from contract research and by bidding for project grants from various funds, the largest of which is the Government's Public Good Science Fund. www.mfe.govt.nz /publications/ser/ser1997/html/chapter4.8.html   (951 words)

Crop & Food Research The Ministry of Research, Science and Technology (MoRST) is a New Zealand government department which develops research and innovation policies and manages the publicly funded part of the RSandT system on behalf of the government. The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology invests in research, science and technology (RSandT) on behalf of the New Zealand government to enhance the wealth and well-being of New Zealanders. The Royal Society of New Zealand promotes excellence in science and research with news, events, publications, and other documentation that reflects their input into education, policy advice to government along with a wide involvement in New Zealand science and technology organisations. www.crop.cri.nz /home/company-info/cri.jsp   (223 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) This organization was broken up into a number of government owned Crown Research Institutes These new institutes were structured as limited liability companies and given clear instructions to act in a more commercial manner with a portion of their annual budget having to be met from private research work. In 1984 funding of research, investigation and exploratory drilling for new geothermal development prospects was transferred to the Ministry of Energy and funded through the Gas and Geothermal Trading Group budget or from the ECNZ budget. If a research project failed to gain the necessary financial support the scientists working on that project have to be accommodated out of funds derived from other successful bids or their contracts terminated. www.os.is /arsfundur/2001/erindi1.shtml   (5938 words)

RSNZ/GM Commission/ACRI The Association of Crown Research Institutes (ACRI) expressed specific concerns in respect to intellectual property in New Zealand. They stated that research knowledge is not a conventional economic good: it cannot be consumed and it can be shared widely and therefore the benefits diffuse widely. ACRI submitted that sufficient and reliable research information exists, or is being rapidly developed, to allow society’s decision-makers to have a workable understanding of the risks of the technology. www.rsnz.org /topics/biol/gene/submis/ACRI.php   (1235 words)

Bachelor of Science - Undergraduate qualifications - Courses and Subjects - University of Canterbury   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) The quality of the teaching and research at UC is demonstrated by the success of our students at the MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year Awards. Crown research institutes, conservation, the environment, agriculture, forestry and health ministries, forensic science, regional and local councils, freshwater and marine fisheries, aquaculture, oceanography, entomology, soil biology, food, brewing and pharmaceuticals, veterinary and medical sciences. Crown research institutes, the National Radiation Laboratory, medical physics departments of hospitals, the Met Service, the armed services, Air New Zealand, mining companies, merchant banks, journalism and science communication programmes, electronic and computer-related industries. www.canterbury.ac.nz /courses/undergrad/bsc.shtml   (954 words)

HORTICULTURAL RESEARCH IN NEW ZEALAND - WCHR The small amount of private research in horticulture is increasing with a few individuals leaving from the universities and crown research institutes and setting up their own research companies. In this report I have not considered their contribution to research as on the scale of research this section is very small. There are nine Crown Research Institutes in New Zealand, two of which are the ones primarily involved in horticultural research - Crop and Food Research and HortResearch. www.agrsci.unibo.it /wchr/wc2/nzl.html   (2786 words)

Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations As a Crown Research Institute, the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences gains approximately 70% of its revenues from contracts with the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, and the remainder from a wide range of consultancy services to several industries. Petroleum exploration and development is a particular focus, and applied research and consultancy activities in basin analysis, source rock and reservoir systems, thermal modelling etc. are underpinned by research programmes in related fundamental areas such as paleontology and deep crustal structure. The Institute`s private-sector research funding, in many cases in collaboration with international partners, addresses such topics as Quaternary sequence stratigraphy, deep-water depositional systems, basin thermal modelling and charge prediction (including distribution of inert gases). www.osti.gov /energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=127346   (393 words)

Scoop: CRIs Not More Concerned About Profitability... The Association of Crown Research Institutes represents the CRIs. Indeed, the Act explicitly states the CRIs' purpose to be research, undertaken for the benefit of New Zealand. These are: to pursue excellence in all its activities; to comply with any applicable ethical standards; to promote and facilitate the application of the results of research and technological developments; be a good employer; and exhibit a sense of social responsibility. www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PO0207/S00257.htm   (624 words)

Ministry of Justice: Publications: Reports: 1999: Directory of Official Information, July: 1999 Crown Company ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) The Crown Company Monitoring Advisory Unit provides ownership monitoring advice to, and management of issues on behalf of, the Minister for State-Owned Enterprises, the Minister for Crown Health Enterprises, the Minister for Crown Research Institutes and other shareholding Ministers of other Crown companies. Thus, the Executive Director is accountable to the Minister of Finance, through the Secretary to the Treasury, for management of the Unit, and appointment, remuneration and performance of staff. The Executive Director is responsible to the Ministers for State-Owned Enterprises, Crown Research Institutes and Health (and other shareholding Ministers) for the provision of the agreed outputs. justice.govt.nz /pubs/reports/1999/dir_of_info/list_c/crown_cmau.html   (495 words)

HortNews - CRI's Must Be Ready To Take On The World - New President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) ROTORUA 03/09/2003 - Forest Research head Bryce Heard has warned that the country's nine Crown Research Institutes need to consider new ways of doing things "to take on the world". He was speaking after his election as president of the Association of Crown Research Institutes (ACRI). The country's main scientific organisations, such as Crown Research Institutes, universities and research associations, were beginning to work with each other to take on the world, he said. www.hortnet.co.nz /news/2003/n4642.htm   (253 words)

Scoop: Association of Crown Research Institutes On GM Dr John Hay, President of the Association of Crown Research Institutes (ACRI), expressed relief that the Government’s decision on genetic modification clarified the parameters within which science researchers, business and society in general now had to work. Dr Hay also expressed delight that the major thrust of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification appeared to be incorporated in the Government’s decision. ACRI supports the common interests of the nine Crown-owned research companies, the largest providers of scientific research in New Zealand. www.scoop.co.nz /stories/PO0110/S00173.htm   (853 words)

FRST | Technology New Zealand TechNZ, a business unit of the Foundation for Research Science and Technology, is a comprehensive suite of schemes that promotes the development and adoption of advanced technologies by business. All businesses applying to TechNZ schemes must be registered for GST and must be a registered company or a trust. The TechNZ Collectives scheme has been devised to assist collectively owned groups evaluate the commercial potential of the resources, assets and other unique opportunities at their disposal through the funding of base-level, analytical programmes of RandD provided in most instances by the Crown Research Institutes (CRIs). www.frst.govt.nz /business/index.cfm   (197 words)

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia We don't have an article called "National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research..." Search for "National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research..." in... Wait a few minutes, or check the deletion log. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Institute_of_Water_and_Atmospheric_Research...   (43 words)

Ministry of Justice: Publications: Reports: 1998: Directory of Official Information, December: 1997 Crown Company ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) CCMAU provides advice on 23 Crown Health Enterprises, 15 Crown Research Institutes and State-Owned Enterprises and other Crown companies. The CEO is responsible to the Ministers for State-Owned Enterprises, Crown Research Institutes and Crown Health Enterprises (and other shareholding Ministers) for the provision of the agreed outputs. The Principal Advisors are responsible for advisory outputs in relation to their allocated class of Crown companies (State-Owned Enterprises, Crown Health Enterprises and Crown Research Institutes respectively). justice.govt.nz /pubs/reports/1998/dir_off_info/list_c/crown_cmau.html   (499 words)

Bell Gully - New Technologies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) We act for a number of Crown Research Institutes and are familiar with the provisions of the Crown Research Institutes Act and other relevant legislation. Advising other Crown Research Institutes on the commercialisation of their intellectual property, including National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and Scion (Forest Research). Preparation and negotiation of Co-operative Research and Development Agreements for various Crown Research Institutes and industry associations. www.bellgully.com /areas/area_0031.asp   (451 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) The amendments are consequential on the establishment, by the Crown Research Institutes Act 1992, of Crown Research Institutes, and the abolition of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The principal effect of the amendments is to authorise the Minister of Research, Science, and Technology to appoint, as a verifying authority in relation to standards of measurement, the Chief Metrologist of the laboratory within Industrial Research Limited (a Crown Research Institute) that maintains principal standard measures for New Zealand. These regulations are administered in the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology. www.knowledge-basket.co.nz /regs/regs/text/1992/1992163.txt   (238 words)

Omniseek: /Science & Tech /Institutions /Research Institutes /Science: Institutions: Government Science Agencies The Council of Ministers of the European Union approved an agreement on research cooperation between the European Union and Canada on February 1996 that opens up a new dimension of cooperation between Canada and the European Union. Prior to the recent reforms, publicly-funded scientific research and development in New Zealand was carried out mainly by government departments. These departments were funded directly by the Government on an institution by institution basis. www.omniseek.com /srch/{45789}   (176 words)

Crown research institutes - Statistics New Zealand Statistics about the nine Crown research institutes include annual records about their income, expenditure, assets and liabilities. NZ Institute for Crop and Food Research Ltd Horticulture and Food Research Institute of NZ Ltd stats.govt.nz /economy/government-finance/crownresearchinstitutes.htm   (69 words)

DPMC - Cabinet Office: Portfolios: Crown Research Institutes DPMC - Cabinet Office: Portfolios: Crown Research Institutes The Crown Company Monitoring Advisory Unit (a unit attached to the Treasury) and the Treasury provide the administrative support for this portfolio. The shareholding Ministers for Crown Research Institutes are the responsible Minister and the Minister of Finance. www.dpmc.govt.nz /cabinet/portfolios/crown-research-institutes.asp   (101 words)

Mud-slinging unworthy of scientific organisations - Green Party Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said today she was disappointed that distinguished scientific organisations would rather be part of a public relations campaign lead by the LifeSciences Network, than participate in an honest debate about genetic engineering. "Biotechnology chairman Ian Warrington from the Crown Research Institutes Association said in a press release on Sunday that 'discussions of the issues is often obscured by misrepresentations aimed at manipulating public opinion'. Ms Fitzsimons said she was saddened that it appeared that respected scientific organisations such as the Grassland Association, the Royal Society and the Association of Crown Research Institutes would rather spin the facts about genetic engineering than debate them. www.greens.org.nz /searchdocs/PR4677.html   (322 words)

Beehive.govt.nz - Crown Research Institutes The government has committed to act quickly to repair roads in flood-ravaged Bay of Plenty. New funding for four major research consortia More » Liz Coutts has been appointed acting chairperson of the Crown Research Institute Industrial Research Ltd (IRL) More » www.beehive.govt.nz /Portfolio.cfm?PortfolioID=36   (118 words)

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