On July 1, 1992, 10 Crown research institutes were formed – the most radical reorganisation of government science in New Zealand’s history. The aim was to group scientists into institutes with separate research aims and subject areas. They also provided for commercial funding of research. This sound file and newspaper clipping describe aspects of the change in research organisation.
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Announcer: The most radical reform of New Zealand scientific effort in sixty years is realised today with the creation of ten new Crown Research Institutes. The creation of the CRIs means the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the DSIR, the Forest Research Institute and the technology division of the Agriculture Ministry no longer exist. But scientists say moral among those who survived the reforms and will have to work in the CRIs, is very low. Peter Fowler reports.
Peter Fowler: The CRI's include institutes for agricultural research, industrial research, geological and atmospheric research and social research. They replace five government departments which employed more than four thousand people and were responsible for $230 million worth of public research, plus $70 million worth of commercial research. A member of the Implementation Steering Committee, Dr. Derek Milne, says the CRIs are set up under the Company's Act and are required to make a profit.
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Image: New Zealand Herald, 4 June 1992
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