Our researchTā mātou rangahau
Our mission is to enhance New Zealand’s capacity to use physical sciences and engineering for economic growth. We have invested in 84 Seed projects around $200k for up to two years, and 10 Spearhead projects up to $1m per annum.
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Research themes
Our research is based on four areas of capability, or Themes. These are broad, multidisciplinary research topics that potentially span many different applications and industry sectors.
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Projects
We support and invest in large multi-disciplinary Spearhead projects and small high-risk Seed projects. All our research projects have to be ‘stretchy’ (complex and challenging) and ‘sticky’ - relevant and specific to New Zealand.
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Our researchers
SfTI brings together a community of around 400 New Zealand physical sciences and engineering researchers, from across 40 organisations.
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Academic publications
Publications from SfTI Researchers