Foreign companies receiving New Zealand R&D money riles Winston
Winston says one of the government's flagship R&D companies is a foreign company and asks why taxpayers' are footing the bill.
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NZ First leader Winston Peters has launched a stinging attack on New Zealand’s research and development money going to a foreign company.
Rocket Lab, a US corporation with a New Zealand subsidiary, has received $1.2 million of taxpayer funded R&D money since 2009.
The government forks out
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Jason Walls
Mon, 20 Apr 2015
Mon, 20 Apr 2015
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Foreign companies receiving New Zealand R&D money riles Winston
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