Wellington
I'm a sucker for a good diagram – a picture's worth a thousand words and allthat jazz.
So I thought I'd see what, if anything, came up in a searchabout New Zealand's science and innovation system; diagram-wise.
Theimage below, taken as a screenshot, is what Google came up with when I searched under 'science andinnovation system, New Zealand' (selecting the Google images icon as well)
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To state the obvious – nothingterribly much here to explain what goes on in godzone, not a hint of a plan you'd have tosay. Well, what about a comparison with other countries?
This is it here.
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Again,to state the obvious - much more illustrative, many more models and examples of how Denmark's ideasto products continuum hangs together. What the heck, decided to do thesame for Fiji (a near neighbour we'd possibly like to think we have a bit of a science andinnovation lead over). Here's their Google search result.
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Now, there may besome peculiarity in Google algorithm for my searches. (Though I had some of my non-scienceycolleagues search too, and they came up with something very similar).
Or, itcould be that there is no plan.
It could be that we're doing lots ofscience, lots of innovation, lots of commercialisation - but it is all adhoc and uncoordinated,relying on luck and synchronicity and who the heck knows what.
I'm alsohoping I'm wrong.
If anyone's seen a plan, please point it out.
It would be a kind of relief to see one.