The newly formed ‘Ministry of Everything’ - more formally called the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment - has announced the results of the first tranche of investment round funding. Apparently, $133m will be invested, over the next 6 years ($32.8m of that this year alone), with 47 research projects being supported. The split: […]
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Crowdsourcing science funding
Huzzah! I’ve been looking forward to this. SciFund is now live. YOU can help to fund science projects. Yup, that’s right. You. Not some funding agency. How does it work? Well, it’s kinda like KickStartr (or NZ’s version, PledgeMe), but for science. Very simply: scientists can put up a project, and then ask people for […]