Get off the Grass - Kickstarting New Zealand's Innovation Economy (Paperback)

In this book two of New Zealand's leading thinkers tell us to get off the grass! - and explain how we might do so. Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan argue that the New Zealand 'paradox' can be explained by our struggle to innovate. On a per capita basis, OECD countries on average produce four times as many patents as New Zealand. Why is this? What determines a country's capacity for innovation? Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan take a quantitative look at how innovation works both in New Zealand and around the world. They 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. Hendy and Callaghan pose deep challenges to the country: Can New Zealand learn to innovate like a city of four million people? Can New Zealand become a place where talent wants to live? Can we learn to live off knowledge rather than nature? Are we willing to take science seriously? In a brilliant intellectual adventure that takes us from David Ricardo and Adam Smith to economic geography and the science of complex networks, Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan pose the tough questions and provide some powerful answers for New Zealand's future.

General

Imprint:	Auckland University Press
Country of origin:	New Zealand
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Paul Callaghan • Shaun Hendy
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-86940-762-9
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business strategy Promotions
LSN:	1-86940-762-8
Barcode:	9781869407629

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