Get Off the Grass - Hendy, Shaun; Callaghan, Paul
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Takes a quantitative look at how innovation works both in New Zealand and around the world. The authors show that economic geography plays a key role in determining rates of innovation and productivity. If New Zealand is to grow its economy more rapidly it must overcome geography to build nationwide communities of innovators, entrepreneurs and businesses. It must get off the grass and diversify its economy beyond the primary sector.

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Takes a quantitative look at how innovation works both in New Zealand and around the world. The authors show that economic geography plays a key role in determining rates of innovation and productivity. If New Zealand is to grow its economy more rapidly it must overcome geography to build nationwide communities of innovators, entrepreneurs and businesses. It must get off the grass and diversify its economy beyond the primary sector.
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Autorenporträt
Shaun Hendy is the former deputy director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology at Victoria University of Wellington and is an industry and outreach fellow at Callaghan Innovation. In 2010 he was awarded the New Zealand Association of Scientists Research Medal and in 2012 he won the Callaghan Medal and the Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize. He is a sought-after commentator on science and innovation matters who has published more than 80 scientific articles, writes the blog A Measure of Science, and has a regular physics slot on Radio New Zealand Nights. Paul Callaghan was one of New Zealand's most successful and internationally renowned scientists. He was the founding director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, the Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Science at Victoria University of Wellington, and a founding director of Magritek, a company that sells nuclear magnetic resonance instruments. He published more than 240 articles in scientific journals and several books including Wool to Weta, on the potential for science and technology entrepreneurialism to diversify New Zealand's economy. In 2010 he was awarded the Günther Laukien Prize for Magnetic Resonance and shared the Prime Minister's Science Prize. In 2011 he was named the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year.