Biotechnology Survey: 2007

Highlights

• In the last two years 67 percent of biotechnology techniques used in New Zealand were in the research and development stage.
• Twenty-one percent of biotechnology organisations are active in the Auckland region.
• New Zealand organisations were granted 225 biotechnology-related patents in the two years to 30 June 2007.
• Thirty percent of biotechnology organisations that recruited overseas, obtained staff from the United States.