Month: March 2019

Tech firms’ continued R&D growth driving economic growth

by Kip Brook - 727

Auckland - New data from Statistics NZ highlights the continued growth of R&D (research and development) by tech firms, with computer services and scientific and tech services making up 35 percent of all R&D investment. Computer services companies alone invested $586 million in R&D in 2018, an increase of $150 million, NZTech

NZ closing the gender gap but tech sector lagging behind

by Kip Brook - 778

Wellington - New Zealand has risen two places to the seventh most gender equal country in the world to the latest World Economic Forum report on the issue. NZTech director Eva Sherwood says overall New Zealand has closed more than 80 percent of its gender gap for the first time since the