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Endeavour Fund — Smart Ideas

Funds smaller New Zealand Endeavour Fund projects through a strategic research mechanism for rapid testing of promising ideas with national benefit.

Smart Ideas is one of the two mechanisms inside MBIE's Endeavour Fund, aimed at smaller investments that rapidly test promising research ideas with high potential for benefit to New Zealand. It sits within a fund designed to back excellent science that can improve the country's economy, environment, and society, and the 2026 round is being run through contract extension rather than an open contest

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Last verified: 15 May 2026Source: www.mbie.govt.nz