Highlights
- In the last two years 67 percent of biotechnology techniques used in New Zealand were in the research and development stage.
- Twenty-one percent of biotechnology organisations are active in the Auckland region.
- New Zealand organisations were granted 225 biotechnology-related patents in the two years to 30 June 2007.
- Thirty percent of biotechnology organisations that recruited overseas, obtained staff from the United States.
Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician |
4 April 2008
ISSN 1178-0428 |
There is a companion Media Release published – Biotechnology Survey: 2007.
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