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Callaghan Innovation
Callaghan Innovation is a New Zealand Crown entity responsible for making New Zealand business more innovative. HistoryIt was established on 1 February 2013, after the House of Representatives passed the Callaghan Innovation Bill the previous year.[2] Industrial Research Limited, a Crown Research Institute, was merged into it.[3] The institute takes its name from Sir Paul Callaghan, a prominent New Zealand physicist who died in 2012. Mary Quin became the first chief executive, in May 2013,[4] and resigned in July 2016. Victoria Crone started as chief executive on 28 February 2017 and resigned in July 2021. Stefan Korn became the acting executive and was permanently appointed in September 2022. On 6 January 2014 the departments of carbohydrate chemistry[5] and high temperature superconductors[6] were ceded to Victoria University of Wellington, being renamed the Ferrier and Robinson Research Institutes respectively.[7] This resulted in a transfer of 55 staff. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins announced the government's intention to close Callaghan Innovation in a "state of the nation" speech on 23 January 2025. Collins justified the closure on the grounds that the crown research institute had "been spread too thinly across too many functions, leading to poor financial performance and an over-reliance on Crown funding." Its functions would be transferred to other entities.[8] Notable staff
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