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Tag Archives: Innovation
How can more young people enter careers and fulfil their potential
Many young New Zealanders feel that a social contract has been breached. This tacit contract is that, if students worked and studied hard, the government would maintain through its institutions the macroeconomic stability and microeconomic flexibility that allow people to … Continue reading
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Ageing, NZS and new opportunities
The sustainability of New Zealand’s superannuation (NZS) system has long been in dispute. A recent Michael Littlewood paper based on Treasury data and OECD analyses challenges the assumption that NZS is unsustainable, given demographics. NZS is a simple, universal scheme. … Continue reading
Developing New Zealand’s advanced technology industries through Defence Budget appropriations
War is terrible, costly, and achieves nothing that could not be done more cheaply by peaceful means. Yet world military expenditure reached US$2718 billion in 2024, an increase of 9.4 percent in real terms from 2023 and the sharpest year-on-year … Continue reading
I too have been thinking about the future New Zealand economy
New Zealand was one of the wealthiest countries in the world in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1950, New Zealand ranked third in the OECD for GDP per capita. However, New Zealand’s economic growth slowed after the mid-20th century and by the early … Continue reading
The mask has slipped: now we can see tribalism’s true face (but things are looking better overall)
In recent weeks the mask slipped, and we saw tribalism’s true face. Kiri Tamihere-Waititi delivered a declamatory call for Māori to overthrow the Government, declare sovereignty and do what the f##k they want. AUT’s Dean of Law dismissed a legal … Continue reading
What caused the mess we are in, and how do we get out of it?
By Peter Winsley 16 January, 2017 Inequality, social malaise, and identity-based extremism result from productivity trends, technological change, globalisation, and business models. These sit within tax, labour market, competition, trade, intellectual property and other policy settings that governments can change. … Continue reading
Essays on Management: Managing innovation
If we understand what innovation is, where it comes from, and the environment to support it, how can it be managed? Managing innovation involves learning, envisaging, managing risk and fear, and implementing. As Alexander Pope said: A little learning is … Continue reading
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Essays on Management: What environment is needed for innovation now and in the future?
Innovation requires both a supportive wider environment in which a business can operate, and an encouraging environment for innovators within a business. Innovation can only flourish where there is a supportive legal, institutional, social and economic environment. The laws and … Continue reading
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Essays on Management: What is innovation and where does it come from?
Innovation involves the creation of new products, processes, services or solutions that someone outside an organisation values. Business renewal and continuous improvement is not innovation, though is a condition of staying in business. Research can be direct linear source of … Continue reading
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Essays on Management: On Seeing
When asked by an admiring student what it was to be poet, Henrik Ibsen answered “to be a poet is to see”. Homer and Milton were blind, however they saw clearly what many with twenty-twenty vision could never see. Seeing … Continue reading
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