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New Zealand needs one place for everything innovative
New Zealand needs one place for everything innovative - NZ Institute
By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 28 Jan. 2011 ) Though he's loathed to call it a 'one-stop-shop', NZ Institute director Rick Boven reckons something similar is required as one measure to boost this country's innovation rate and output.
The institute recent discussion paper 'Plugging the Gaps - An internationalisation strategy', suggested as one of its 14 policy directions that an "Information Clearinghouse" be established in New Zealand.
Boven says NZTE has a website that provides some of the functions he envisages such a clearinghouse could have.
However, "at the moment, if you want to find out something, it's mostly about connections and word of mouth," he says.
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