Biotechnology Research Roadmap - Science and Innovation

Table 3 below shows a list of research priority signals, which party industry see as responsible for investment and the
industries that have specifically indicated a particular area as a priority.
Table 3
Primary Industry Research Priorities
Research signal
Priority area for
For Government R&D Investment
Biosecurity
Human health and welfare
Biodiversity knowledge
Pastoral, Horticulture, Forestry, Marine, Arable
Food and Beverage
Marine
For Co-Investment
New products (includes foods)
Increase productivity
Environmentally sustainable
Industry development
Animal health and welfare
Food safety
Arable, Food and Beverage, Forestry,
Marine, Pastoral
Pastoral, Horticulture, Arable, Forestry, Marine
Pastoral, Arable, Forestry, Marine
Pastoral
Pastoral, Horticulture, Food and Beverage
For Private Sector R&D Investment
Develop industry tools and markets
Horticulture, Pastoral
Industry’s expectations of what it considers “public
good research”, to be funded by government alone,
is research into understanding and protecting our
natural environment and the subsequent competitive
advantages that this bestows on industry and enhancing
the health status of New Zealanders.
The areas where industry considers the research
investment responsibility of the private sector alone
are largely at the market driven end of the spectrum.
This includes the development of industry tools
and markets, for example, research to understand
consumer attitudes and preferences.
Industry considers that research into increasing
primary production productivity, food safety, animal
health and welfare, ensuring that industry develops in
an environmentally sustainable way, and bearing the
risk of investing in research into value-added product
developments with as yet untested markets, should be
undertaken as a co-investment between government
and industry. This expectation has been borne out via
a number of the research consortia recently established
between government and industry groups.
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