“…In New Zealand, too, sweeping economic changes initiated by the Labour Government in the mid-1980s and continued by the National Government from 1990, contained similar changes for government-funded science. The customer/contractor principle was elaborated to identify these and other potential areas of conflict of interest which it was considered desirable to separate: policy advice, purchase of services, ownership of provider organisations, and provision of services [5]. By 1990, the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology (MORST), responsible for policy, and the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST), responsible for the purchase of science services, had been established.…”