Our emphasis for 2019 to 2024 is to actively lead better and faster pathways from science discovery through to delivering impacts at regional or national scales. By ‘impact’ we mean a set of final, long-term effects or benefits in a value chain. A rich array of talents are needed to better understand and manage our biological heritage and deliver impact, but many science and research efforts in New Zealand have increasingly become fragmented. For example, our Challenge Parties identified c. $179M of research over 3 years representing >700 research projects or programmes aligned with the Mission of our Challenge. However, this diverse effort has lacked overall cohesion and focus, in part because it
has never been harnessed in a strategic framework to deliver measurable benefit for New Zealand.