Comments on: Pressure building for Nats on R&D http://www.thestandard.org.nz/pressure-building-for-nats-on-rd/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pressure-building-for-nats-on-rd The New Zealand labour movement used to have its own newspaper. A group of us thought that now might be a good time for it to be digitally reborn: The Standard v2.0 - now in a new format The Standard v3.0 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:09:22 +1300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: AncientGeek http://www.thestandard.org.nz/pressure-building-for-nats-on-rd/#comment-24905 AncientGeek Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:49:16 +0000 http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=1467#comment-24905 The nats have always had a discontinuity between their urban/business supporters and their rural supporters. Goes all the way back to the <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_National_Party#Formation' rel="nofollow">formation</a> of the party. Usually doesn't show much, as a lot of the interests are similar. I suspect that in this case, the structural crack is showing. I haven't read a lot on this fund yet. But what I have seen looks good for getting the right approach between carte blanche funding and having funding caught in the political cycle. Looks like a structure that allows longer term research plans. We certainly needed more funding there. We've effectively been mining the research from prior to the 80's. The nats have always had a discontinuity between their urban/business supporters and their rural supporters. Goes all the way back to the formation of the party.

Usually doesn’t show much, as a lot of the interests are similar. I suspect that in this case, the structural crack is showing.

I haven’t read a lot on this fund yet. But what I have seen looks good for getting the right approach between carte blanche funding and having funding caught in the political cycle. Looks like a structure that allows longer term research plans.

We certainly needed more funding there. We’ve effectively been mining the research from prior to the 80’s.

]]> By: On The Blogs « nz pundit http://www.thestandard.org.nz/pressure-building-for-nats-on-rd/#comment-24767 On The Blogs « nz pundit Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:38:07 +0000 http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=1467#comment-24767 [...] Standard also has an excellent article on the continuing saga of the New Zealand Fast Forward research fund, and the reaction of [...] [...] Standard also has an excellent article on the continuing saga of the New Zealand Fast Forward research fund, and the reaction of [...]

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