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BaselineMonitoringReport Development of Networks and Clusters of Specialisation ← Quality of Research | Home Page | Development of New Researchers → This strategy includes an emphasis on developing research networks and clusters of specialisation. This recognises the need to make good use of the limited resources available for research in New Zealand and the need to build critical mass around strategic research programmes. High levels of international collaboration but low levels of intra-institutional collaborationThe National Bibliometric Report 1997 to 2001 shows that papers produced in the tertiary education sector were more likely to have involved collaboration than those produced in most other parts of the national research system. The report states that in 2001, 52 percent of university publications were the result of collaborations, compared with the 59 percent reported for publications in 1996 and 32 percent in 1986. While there was extensive joint publication between researchers in New Zealand universities and their colleagues overseas, there was relatively low propensity for joint publication between the New Zealand universities in research. More than 70 percent of these collaborative publications were with overseas bodies, compared with 67 percent in 1996. International collaborations in papers produced by universities were more likely than in papers produced in other parts of the research system. For instance, around 60 percent of CRI papers that involved collaboration and about 50 percent of collaboratively produced health research papers involved collaboration overseas. Nearly 10 percent of collaborations on university papers were with CRIs. Only five percent were with other New Zealand universities, compared with eight percent in 1996. Centres of Research Excellence to support collaboration and networksThe CoREs have been set up to encourage higher levels of domestic collaboration, both between the universities and between the universities and CRIs. All of the CoREs are hosted by universities; five out of the seven involve formal partner institutions, including universities and research organisations, while one other involves a cluster of multidisciplinary research teams across one institution. The role of the seven CoREs is to support leading-edge, international standard innovative research that fosters excellence and contributes both to New Zealand’s national goals, and to knowledge transfer. The CoREs are:
Partners: University of Canterbury, University of Auckland, University of Otago, and Victoria University of Wellington
Partners: University of Canterbury, Industrial Research Limited, and Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
Partners: Massey University, New Zealand Crop and Food Research Ltd and AgResearch Ltd
Partner: New Zealand Mathematics Research Institute
Partners: Massey University, University of Otago, with contributions from AgResearch Ltd
Partners: Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Otago, University of Waikato, and Landcare Research
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