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May 22, 2012
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Auckland and Wellington have already gotten in on the game, and next month it’ll be Christchurch’s turn. Christchurch Startup Weekend
runs from February 24-26, the city’s first event of the kind. And
thanks to tireless campaigning by local Startup Weekend facilitator Jason Armishaw, Startup Weekend chief executive himself Marc Nager will be in attendance. We caught up with him for a chat about innovation, bootstrapping and community-building.
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After a decade of attempts to break into the US
acne medication market, Douglas Pharmaceuticals has gained Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) approval to sell its New Zealand-developed acne
drug, isotretinoin. It’s
a market worth US$400 million ($494 million), the company says, and director Jeff Douglas believes its isotretinoin is the first Kiwi-developed human medicine to be approved for use in the US.
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An unwillingness to rigorously evaluate and kill weak ideas is but
one indication that many New Zealand companies don’t fully understand
the role of design in taking products and services to market. The managing director of designindustry Ltd,
Dorenda Britten, says Kiwi companies are good at the
technical side of creating new products or services and we can always be
relied upon to make improvements on existing ones. However, we don’t tend to be good at standing back and evaluating the
opportunity, costs and benefits.
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The government has criticised Fonterra’s lack of
transparency and proposed a plan under which the dairy giant would be
required to provide five percent of its raw milk to independent
producers, up from three percent. MAF’s preferred options include embedding Fonterra’s current milk
price governance arrangements in legislation, requiring Fonterra to
publicly disclose information about its milk price setting and
introducing an annual milk price monitoring regime to be undertaken by
the Commerce Commission. Not surprisingly, Fonterra responded by saying the changes would hit
consumers in the pocket with profits heading into foreign dairy
companies that would ship the extra milk offshore.
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There are two weeks left for exporters to get in on the action and register for a trade mission to southeast Asia this March. Export New Zealand is organising the mission in
association with the ASEAN New Zealand Combined Business
Council; the itinerary includes Malaysia, Sarawak and Brunei.
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A team of architects are on a quest to tackle the eco-housing prejudices of potential homeowners by creating the ehouseTM, a planbook incorporating contemporary architectural designs with built-in eco features. Phil
Shaw of ICR Consulting, an Auckland-based architectural design
practice, says there are plans for Auckland’s major house-building companies to offer the service.
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Award-winning architecture firm Patterson
Associates is set to lead a consortium of some of New Zealand’s most
creative content developers in delivering New Zealand’s pavilion at the
2012 Frankfurt Book Fair. The group tasked with creating the 2,500-square-metre pavilion includes
furniture designer David Trubridge and events company Inside Out
Productions. Inside Out was behind Tourism New Zealand’s giant rugby
ball in Paris, London and Tokyo.
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Dubbed the ‘Skynet’ law due to ridiculous statements made by politicians, the Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act came into effect in September. The first notices were issued late last year and some are currently under scrutiny for compliance. But IP expert Simon Fogarty says it’s going to be a long time before any cases actually reach the Copyright Tribunal.
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