National Research Priorities panel misses the mark says New Zealand Association of Scientists Co-President Professor Troy Baisden

In my view, one might be forgiven to wonder, at minimum, what investment bank and world economic forum ties signal? Is it the usual things those kind of ties signal?

For a response from MBIE, see the paywalled Herald article.

From the NZAS press release:

‍Our university sector is in crisis. Across all our institutions, careers and research have been disrupted as healthy funding contests have evolved into hypercompetition and capricious layers of management seeking ever greater funding, with less time and resource for research.

I wrote about cooperation in my earlier post. Seriously, we need more of that.