Biotechnology Survey: 2005

Highlights

Biotechnology income was valued at $811 million in the 2005 financial year. Biotechnology expenditure was valued at $642 million for the same period. Sixty-six percent of biotechnology techniques being used in New Zealand have been used in the R&D development stage in the last two years.	New Zealand organisations were granted 190 biotechnology-related patents in the two years to 30 June 2005. New Zealand organisations employed 2,464 biotechnology employees in the year to 30 June 2005.

Graph, Qualification of Biotechnology Employees.

Brian Pink	5 April 2006
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