Callaghan Innovation: rating five possible reforms

Commentators give their views on what the government innovation agency needs.   PLUS: Labour likely to again campaign on taking an axe to it.

Chris Keall
Mon, 01 May 2017

Everyone agrees that Callaghan Innovation – the Crown agency which dishes out around $140 million a year in matching R&D “growth grants” – needs to change.

But how?

A Performance Improvement Framework (PIF) review of Callaghan, released in December, said the agency had “weak and fuzzy

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