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May 22, 2012
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As governments worldwide search for that elusive economic growth, some eyes are turning to Israel, the self-styled ‘Startup Nation’. Despite
many barriers to success, Israel boasts it has more startups per head
of population than any other country; more companies listed on the
technology index Nasdaq (apart from the US); and has posted a string of high-tech wins, especially in water technology, surgical equipment and (surprise) military equipment. All
this from a country of just six million, which is devoid of natural
resources and is surrounded by belligerent enemies. What gives?
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Christchurch biochemist Professor Christine
Winterbourn last night became the first woman ever to receive the
country’s highest science and technology honour – the Rutherford Medal. Together with the
medal awarded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, she also received $100,000
from the government. She is currently director of the Free
Radical Research Group in the pathology department at the University of Otago, Christchurch; Royal Society president Dr Garth Carnaby said Winterbourn’s research into free
radical biology had opened the way for groundbreaking research into links to diseases.
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They’re not about fashion, or coffee, or rugby, and 90 percent of the
revenue earned by these clever companies is from easy-to-miss exports.
If they were in the US or Germany or China, they’d be feted. That’s the TIN100 we’re talking about – but while they had record revenues of $7 billion last year, many New Zealanders
would be hard-pressed to name half a dozen of them.
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Smartphones are no longer just for the upwardly
mobile – and if you haven’t figured out how to use them to your
advantage, you need your head read. As David MacGregor explains, the possibilities for marketers to exploit are more or less endless.
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The good folks
behind Greening the Rubble have picked up a Christchurch
Civic Trust Award for their “unique initiative and enterprise in the temporary
enhancement of empty spaces left after the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes”. The team had high hopes for their voluntary project, which converts
earthquake-damaged spaces into recreational, green havens, with the help of students, landscape
designers, gardeners and professionals from a wide range of backgrounds.
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Meanwhile, ArtBox, an initiative aiming to provide exhibition and retail space
for approximately 100 Christchurch artists, craft practitioners and design
retailers displaced following the February earthquake, is moving on and up. The first prototypes have been launched and are open to feedback from members
of the public.
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