{"id":163682,"date":"2025-06-02T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=163682"},"modified":"2025-05-27T13:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:34:37","slug":"new-zealand-new-bioeconomy-science-institute-to-be-formed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/new-zealand-new-bioeconomy-science-institute-to-be-formed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand: New Bioeconomy Science Institute to be formed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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From this date, AgResearch will operate as a division of the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science (Bioeconomy Science Institute).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AgResearch will join sister CRIs Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Plant & Food Research, and Scion in the new Bioeconomy Science Institute. The Institute will conduct research to advance innovation in agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, biotechnology and manufacturing; protect ecosystems from biosecurity threats and climate risks; and develop new bio-based technologies and products.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minister Reti also announced the appointment of a Board of Directors for the new Bioeconomy Science Institute. This includes Chair Barry Harris, currently Chair of sister CRI NIWA; Deputy Chair Kim Wallace, current Chair of AgResearch; Candace Kinser, current Director of Plant & Food Research; Andrew Morrison, current Director of AgResearch; and Gray Baldwin, current Director of Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two other new CRIs \u2013 the New Zealand Institute for Earth Science, bringing together NIWA and GNS; and the New Zealand Institute for Public Health and Forensic Science, currently ESR \u2013 will also be formed on 1 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See Minister Reti’s full media release here(external link)<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information on the MBIE website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From this date, AgResearch will operate as a division of the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science (Bioeconomy Science Institute). AgResearch will join sister CRIs Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Plant & Food Research, and Scion in the new Bioeconomy Science Institute. The Institute will conduct research to advance innovation in agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, biotechnology and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":163734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Minister Shane Reti, Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology, today announced that new consolidated Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) will be formed from 1 July 2025","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[6630,5838,17299,5796,6268],"supplier":[26416,26415,26417,26418,2125],"class_list":["post-163682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-agriculture","tag-bioeconomy","tag-biomanufacturing","tag-biotechnology","tag-forestry","supplier-agresearch","supplier-manaaki-whenua-landcare-research","supplier-niwa-nz","supplier-plant-and-food-research-nz","supplier-scion-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163682"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=163682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}