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Research
Bragato Research Institute drives world-leading innovation for the wine industry - from stretchy science through to the practical application
of science across vineyards, wineries and supply chain.
Industry impact and
key outcomes
Bragato Research Institute (BRI), the research arm of NZW, manages all NZW levy-funded research, as well as undertaking research with additional partners. With levy funds increasingly focused on applied research into immediate needs and issues, BRI is building in-house capability—people, skills and facilities—to manage a portfolio of work to address longer term challenges and opportunities. To collaborate in executing this research, BRI has signed agreements with
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major partners, such as Plant & Food Research - Rangahau Ahumāra Kai, to ensure additional benefits to the industry, avoid duplication of efforts, and to strengthen relationships
with longstanding research partners of NZW.
In 2020 BRI commissioned
New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) to estimate the impact of research and development (R&D) in the wine sector, and the impact of BRI activities on the Marlborough region, the national winegrowing industry and the
wider economy.
The reports' authors use three industry-funded projects - mechanical shaking, timing of pruning, and
trunk disease - to examine the contribution of research to annual economic growth of the wine industry. Using that information as well as
past studies, they concluded that research has led to annual economic growth of the wine industry between 20% and 25%, with a boost to the national economy driven by higher productivity. Additionally, NZIER found that wine R&D leads to:
• an increase in exports by $41 million
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PEST, DISEASES AND BIOSECURITY
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an increase in the size of the national economy by $64.5 million
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