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Who keeps a real eye on the 'space' beyond R&D

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Nothing keeps an oversight of the New Zealand innovation ecosystem.

Science and R&D gets a good looking to, but beyond this engine of ideas and discoverer ofknowledge, the next parts are not as connected as they could be.

What other parts?

  • The part that allows someone to scale up and test a process - be it food, energy, or aninnovative product.

  • The part that develops and encourages best routes tomarket.

  • The part that helps facilitate distribution of high-value NZ products - oftenrequiring finance assistance at crucial parts.

  • The part that enables entrepreneurs toimprove on areas of weakness, or for NZ Inc to train up specialists in particular areas ofinternationalisation practice.

  • The part that sees us look at technological solutionsas a way to move up the value chain.

  • The part that says there is no failure, onlyexperience.


New Zealand's hands off style of economic management has tended tothe view that market forces would be enough to drive prosperity.

But there's nothing, no body that's charged with identifying gaps and opportunities, directingefforts and allocating resources to take high-value goods and services to market.

Partly because there's no oversight body, the statistics and data on differentiated goodsexporters is limited - which is not the case for other export sectors in NZ.

Other small successful countries have aggressively intervened in their economies by driving froman innovation perspective.

If it’s good enough for Denmark, Singapore et al to have a high level overview that makes sureall the ducks are flying in formation; surely it is good enough for us?

Who keeps a real eye on the 'space' beyond R&D

Who keeps a real eye on the 'space' beyond R&D
 
 
 
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