Get off the Grass

Kickstarting New Zealand's Innovation Economy

By: Paul Callaghan, Shaun Hendy

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Paperback | 1 August 2013

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In a brilliant intellectual adventure that ranges from David Ricardo and Adam Smith to economic geography and the science of complex networks, Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan explore how New Zealanders can learn to live off knowledge rather than nature. The key to increasing New Zealand's prosperity, they argue, is innovation in high-tech niches. To catch up with the countries that lure young Kiwis away, New Zealand needs to start innovating like a city of four million people; it needs to start taking science seriously; it needs to start seeing its people as people of learning, not just of the land. Get off the Grass provides a readable introduction to a wide variety of ideas including economic geography, network theory, and complexity theory; offers unique insights into the New Zealand economy and its long-term prospects; adds to current debates worldwide about innovation, science, economic growth, and networks.

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"This is an important book on where we have come from, who we are, and where we need to go. Based on an accessible discussion about the drivers of economic growth, it provides a valuable account of the significant challenges and substantial opportunities that New Zealand has." --Dr. David Skilling, director, Landfall Strategy Group-Singapore

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