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Stop trying to Aucklandise our science and innovation
Stop trying to Aucklandise our science and innovation
(sticK - 17 April 2012 ) At the risk of displaying a Wellington-residential and Southland upbringing bias, the government’s keenness for an Aucklandisation of our science and innovation strikes me as being stupid.
In particular, the push to make (force even) the development of the former oil tank farm Wynyard Quarter as a place that can grow into a hotbed of science-led innovation is wrong.
Purely on an evidence-based front, there’s flaws in the
argument that’s been put up for the Quarter.
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