❓ Hon Barry House asks about the allocation of funds from the science and biotechnology budgets, including specific expenditures and new commitments. Hon Kim Chance provides a detailed breakdown of spending and commitments, incorporating the answer into Hansard.
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SCIENCE AND INNOVATION - STATE BUDGET
I refer to questions without notice 1020 of Tuesday, 13 November 2007. (1) (a) How has the $4 358 320 from the science budget been spent? (b) In what financial year was each of these commitments originally made? (c) How much of these funds has been invested in biotechnology? (2) (a) What new commitments have been made in the past 12 months in the science and biotechnology portfolios? (b) What is the value of each of these commitments? (3) (a) What has the $4 170 000 from the biotechnology strategy been spent on? (b) When were these commitments originally made? Hon KIM CHANCE
I refer to questions without notice 1020 of Tuesday, 13 November 2007. (1) (a) How has the $4 358 320 from the science budget been spent? (b) In what financial year was each of these commitments originally made? (c) How much of these funds has been invested in biotechnology? (2) (a) What new commitments have been made in the past 12 months in the science and biotechnology portfolios? (b) What is the value of each of these commitments? (3) (a) What has the $4 170 000 from the biotechnology strategy been spent on? (b) When were these commitments originally made? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I thank Hon Barry House for some notice of this question. It is a fairly detailed answer. I will table the answer and seek leave for its incorporation in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 3484.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
(1) (a) How has the $4 358 320 from the science budget been spent? (b) In what financial year was each of these commitments originally made? (c) How much of these funds has been invested in biotechnology? (2) (a) What new commitments have been made in the past 12 months in the science and biotechnology portfolios? (b) What is the value of each of these commitments? (3) (a) What has the $4 170 000 from the biotechnology strategy been spent on? (b) When were these commitments originally made? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank Hon Barry House for some notice of this question. It is a fairly detailed answer. I will table the answer and seek leave for its incorporation in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 3484.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
(c) How much of these funds has been invested in biotechnology?
I thank Hon Barry House for some notice of this question. It is a fairly detailed answer. I will table the answer and seek leave for its incorporation in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 3484.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
Leave granted. [See paper 3484.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
[See paper 3484.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
(1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950
Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950
2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages
(2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
(3b) 23 August 2007
(1) (a) How has the $4 358 320 from the science budget been spent? (b) In what financial year was each of these commitments originally made? (c) How much of these funds has been invested in biotechnology? (2) (a) What new commitments have been made in the past 12 months in the science and biotechnology portfolios? (b) What is the value of each of these commitments? (3) (a) What has the $4 170 000 from the biotechnology strategy been spent on? (b) When were these commitments originally made? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank Hon Barry House for some notice of this question. It is a fairly detailed answer. I will table the answer and seek leave for its incorporation in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 3484.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
(c) How much of these funds has been invested in biotechnology?
I thank Hon Barry House for some notice of this question. It is a fairly detailed answer. I will table the answer and seek leave for its incorporation in Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 3484.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
Leave granted. [See paper 3484.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
[See paper 3484.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
(1a) Neurotrauma Research Program 2,500,000 Nobel Laureates Program 1,800,000 Support for the Chief Scientist 58,320 Total $4,358,320 Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950 (1b) 2006/2007 Neurotrauma Research Program Nobel Laureates Program 2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages (c) $2,575,950 (2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
Since the previous parliamentary question 968, further expenditure has been attributed to the $72M Science budget. This includes: Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950
Biotechnology Strategy Building Capacity - Infrastructure 250 Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills 61,000 Going Global - International Linkages 14,700 Total $75,950
2007/2008 Chief Scientist Biotechnology Strategy · Building Capacity - Infrastructure · Building Capability - Commercialisation Skills · Going Global - International Linkages
(2a-b) Clinical Trials Network 9,946,000 Scitech Communication Initiatives 297,000 Chief Scientist Activities 208,000 Biotechnology Strategy 4,170,000 Premiers Research Fellowship Program 4,000,000 Premiers Science Awards 2,500,000 Science & Engineering Challenge 2007 24,500 Value Adding Quest (VAQ) 90,000 Total $21,235,500 (3a) The funding commitment for the Biotechnology Strategy is $4.17 million over three years, from 2007/08, and will support the achievement of a number of initiatives in the four priority areas: Building Capacity; Building Capability; Building Understanding and Going Global. Specific details for initiatives in each of these priority areas are being finalised at this time. (3b) 23 August 2007
(3b) 23 August 2007
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