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By Shaun Hendy

whereas we New Zealanders stay off the cow's again, our long term financial diagnosis seems grim. Our monetary progress lags in the back of Australia and different international locations within the OECD. Our universities fall every year in overseas ratings. We export 24 in keeping with cent of our collage graduates. The country's lack-lustre fiscal functionality following the free-market reforms of the Eighties is frequently forged as a paradox: why have not sound fiscal regulations ended in progress? during this booklet of recent Zealand's major thinkers let us know to 'get off the grass!' - and clarify how we'd accomplish that. Shuan Hendy and Paul Callaghan argue that the hot Zealand 'paradox' should be defined by way of our fight to innovate. On a per-capita foundation, OECD international locations on normal produce 4 instances as many patents as New Zealand. Why is that this? What determines a country's ability for innovation? Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan take a quantitative examine how innovation works either in New Zealand and all over the world. They convey that financial geography performs a key function in settling on charges of innovation and productiveness. If New Zealand is to develop its economic climate extra speedily it needs to triumph over geography to construct national groups of innovators, marketers and companies. It needs to get off the grass and diversify its economic system past the first quarter. Hendy and Callaghan pose deep demanding situations to the rustic: Can New Zealand learn how to innovate like a urban of 4 million humans? Can New Zealand turn into a spot the place expertise desires to stay? do we learn how to stay off wisdom instead of nature? Are we prepared to take technology heavily? In a super highbrow experience that takes us from David Ricardo and Adam Smith to financial geography and the technological know-how of complicated networks, Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan pose the cruel questions and supply a few robust solutions for brand new Zealand's future.

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