King Colin: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
King Colin: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
[Sitting date: 17 July 2012. Volume:681;Page:3535. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
3. 
COLIN KING (National—Kaikoura) 
 to the  
Minister of Science and Innovation 
: How will the new Advanced Technology Institute help businesses get competitive products to market? 
Hon STEVEN JOYCE (Minister of Science and Innovation) 
: 
 Good news. Last Thursday the Prime Minister and I announced the high-level structure for the new Advanced Technology Institute. It will become a high tech HQ for innovative New Zealand businesses. It will help high tech firms become more competitive by better connecting them with innovation expertise and facilities both within the Advanced Technology Institute around the country and also internationally. The Advanced Technology Institute will make it easier for firms to access business assistance and our best researchers engineers and industrial designers including by organising and part-funding secondments and internships. Also those businesses can compete and succeed in the global market place. 
Colin King 
: What industries will the Advanced Technology Institute be active in? 
Hon STEVEN JOYCE 
: We expect the Advanced Technology Institute to focus on a range of technology-intensive industries with significant growth potential such as food and beverage manufacturing agritechnologies digital technologies health technologies therapeutics manufacturing and high-value wood products. This will encourage innovation competition— 
Andrew Little 
: This was Labour’s strategy 10 years ago! This is 10 years old. 
Hon STEVEN JOYCE 
: —and greater commercialisation in these sectors which in turn will help boost our exports. The manufacturing and services sector already accounts for around 29 percent of our GDP but we have the potential to increase this in New Zealand if we have more firms carrying out research and development and encourage those already doing so to do more. And Mr Little it may be Labour policy from 10 years ago but we implemented it. 
Colin King 
: How is the Government helping the Advanced Technology Institute achieve these goals? 
Hon STEVEN JOYCE 
: Mr Speaker— 
Andrew Little 
: Reheat it and serve it up again. 
Hon STEVEN JOYCE 
: I think the member is just pointing out that the Labour Party members are great talkers and not very good doers. The Advanced Technology Institute will have a range of resources at its disposal. It will absorb much of Industrial Research’s operations in Auckland the Hutt Valley and Christchurch and a number of other capabilities from across government to provide a one-stop shop for technology support. The Government provided additional funding for the Advanced Technology Institute in Budget 2012 of $166 million over 4 years. We will seek to develop skills relevant to business through greater mobility of researchers graduates and academics between institutions and industry and by organising co-appointments and secondments. The new Advanced Technology Institute will help ensure that innovative Kiwi firms have access to the skills facilities infrastructure— 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Oh yeah yeah yeah! 
Hon STEVEN JOYCE 
: —you hate it Winston—and new technologies they need to lift their competitiveness and in turn boost New Zealand’s economic growth. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Who wrote that rubbish? 
Hon STEVEN JOYCE 
: That Mr Peters is a business growth agenda.