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Science and New Zealand's future: an ironical perspective Paul Callaghan Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Scien

Science and New Zealand's future: an ironical perspective Paul Callaghan Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences Victoria University of Wellington. New Zealand performance. Income inequality 26/33 Unemployment 15/33 Level of democracy 3/33 Life expectancy 11/33

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Science and New Zealand's future: an ironical perspective Paul Callaghan Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Scien

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  1. Science and New Zealand's future: an ironical perspective Paul Callaghan Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences Victoria University of Wellington

  2. New Zealand performance Income inequality 26/33 Unemployment 15/33 Level of democracy 3/33 Life expectancy 11/33 Prison population 26/33 Math score 9/33 Science score 6/33

  3. 35% US $40 bn

  4. Iceland New Zealand Japan USA Canada Switzerland Australia UK Greece Spain Ireland Sweden Finland Austria Italy Netherlands Belgium Germany France

  5. US$ 35 billion Year ended December 2008 8 Manufacturing 6 Forestry and other primary Foreign earnings (US$ billion) Metals Petrolem 4 Fruit and vegetable Tourism ELT 2 Dairy Fish Meat Wine 0 NZ External Trade Statistics http://www.stats.govt.nz

  6. More tourism would be good for the New Zealand economy

  7. NZ has 1.3 million FTE of employment $500,000 $400,000 Fonterra $300,000 Revenue per employee Fisher and Paykel Healthcare NZ Manufacturing Exports Total NZ Manufacturing $200,000 Needed for current per capita GDP Food manufacturing $100,000 Wine Tourism 0 100,000 200,000 300,000 FTE of employment

  8. New Zealand is small so we need to specialise in the knowledge economy. we are good at agriculture, therefore our best chance for a high tech economy is in biosciences New Economy Research Fund 1999-2005 USA (and nearly everyone else) New Zealand Abt Associates report to MoRST www.morst.govt.nz

  9. F and P appliances TIN100 New Zealand Technology Companies Datacom F and P Healthcare Navico NDA ProvencoCadmus $1410m Rakon Gallagher Weta Ltd Tait Electronics Ltd $500m Douglas pharmaceuticals Allied Telesis Methven Tru Test Glidepath $400m Annual revenue (NZ$) Dynamic controls CWF Hamilton Schneider electric Skope industries $300m BCS group Humanware Infinity group $200m NZ Pharmaceuticals $100m 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 1 Rank

  10. 100 Alpine Zone Tussock 80 Exotic grassland 60 Exotic forest 40 Scrub, wetlands 20 Native forest Settlements, crops 0 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 year percent total land area Recent history of New Zealand land cover

  11. Earthrace “ecoboat” aka “Ady Gil”

  12. Earthrace “ecoboat” “Sustainable energy, without the hot air” David McKay (UIT, Cambridge, 2008)

  13. Lao Tzu 4th century BC The words of truth are always paradoxical.

  14. Irony The perceived notion of an incongruity between what is expressed and what is intended, or between an understanding or expectation of a reality and what actually happens, "when the literal truth is in direct discordance to the perceived truth." Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

  15. “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president (1809-1865) April 9, 1865 (Appomattox )

  16. Paradox: our two greatest scientists

  17. Paradox: if it sounds unfamiliar, it may stand a chance

  18. As for leaders, The worst, the people hate, The next best, the people fear, The next best the people honor and praise. But for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'

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