Wireless-charging roads, clean aviation, super-volcano projects get $41M of MBIE funding

By Sophie Boot
Sept. 14 (BusinessDesk) - The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has allocated $41 million from its Endeavour Fund for five projects run by Victoria University of Wellington and one by the University of Auckland.
In the latest round of funding from the Endeavour Fund, 68 new projects will receive $250 million over the next five years. MBIE received 408 applications for research funding, it said.
The project which received the most funding will investigate detection, diagnostic, prediction and management stra...
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