NZ is well behind many countries especially the UK in considering climate change issues, though our new Government has signaled a much more proactive approach.  However it is not yet clear what this really means.   

Climate Change 

Whilst cli...

Joint standards between NZ and Australia are the norm with some exceptions for NZ specific situations or when international standards are used directly.  Standards Australia (SA) holds nearly all the secretariats that monitor and develop standards. N...

Submission on Closure of the Centre for Materials Science and Technology (November 14)

I understand that the University of Otago is considering the disestablishment of the Centre for Materials Science and Technology (CMAST), and that in the process th...

This opinion piece was published in the DomPost on November 13 2017

The Government intends to be more proactive in developing the economy with new plans for infrastructure spending and a new focus on the development of manufacturing and technology-bas...

Croaking Cassandra (Michael Reddell ) has recently written a number of interesting blogs discussing the poor performance of the export sector, and what might be done about it.  This is a topic that has been ignored for years by MBIE and Treasury, so...

Economist Bill Rosenberg writing in the DomPost (Opinion Piece, Friday 11th August 2017) tackled the widely held misconception that minimal government is good government, and especially in regard to business development and the development of the eco...

Original article: Idealog.co.nz.

With technology being predicted to become New Zealand's number one exporting sector, the time has come to set out the vision. CEO of the Centre for Advanced Engineering and author of the recently released book Innovate...