Sir Paul Callaghan – StrategyNZ: Mapping our Future – March 2011 
This is a great presentation. Watch it all. Or just skip to 7.47 to look at why we go backwards if the focus of the leader of the national party is all on tourism.
Sir Paul Callaghan – StrategyNZ: Mapping our Future – March 2011
This is a great presentation. Watch it all. Or just skip to 7.47 to look at why we go backwards if the focus of the leader of the national party is all on tourism.
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Callaghan has raised the issue of intensification before wrt to the dairy sector and he’s dead on the money.
So a question for you Trevor; what strategy does the NZLP propose to bring us out of the commodites + tourism GNP model?
Let assume a muti term govt (say 12yrs) that allow policies to get bedded in and returns to be measured.
What is Labour’s vision in this area?
I imagine that one thing that Labour will do Gregor, is to reinstate the R&D that National abolished. For National it was a bit like sending cricketers out to bat without allowing them to own bats.
A banker lends you the bats on a rainy day, and asks for them back on a sunny day ?
@ianmac
I sure hope so.
My fear is that any R+D creds will continue to be used as a soft subsidy for Agribusiness rather than looking at other sectors of the economy (a topic that I had broached on a couple of other threads, but to date, no response from the originating MPs).
It’s a shame that while they all talk about it, no solutions are offered. This is the type of stuff that would win my vote – looking forward the next 20 years rather than living in the current electoral cycle.
I think you will find Trevor there is a difference between revenue per employee and income to the employee. There are huge input costs in dairy farming, as there are in manufacturing. Tourism is a service industry. There aren’t a lot of input costs. The same can’t be said of manufacturing or dairying. But in your attempt to make a cheap shot at the PM you might have missed that.
There’s a lot of potential in high value tourism. Is it now the policy of the Labour Party, after unsuccessfully talking down our film industry, to put our tourism industry at risk as well? Or can we just take it as another unsuccesful cheap shot at the PM?
@ Portion Control, thanks for confirming you Tory boys are the problem.
Jennifer, you’re like a broken record.
Do you ever actually add anything to the discussion like, I don’t know, having an actual opinion (informed or othewise) about the issue raised?
Isn’t the purpose of this blog to get a bit of discussion going so that TM and his colleagues can get a bit of public feedback (sometimes critical sometimes not) and maybe position some ideas for wider consumption, or is it an NZLP echo chamber?
Glad you got around to watching it too.
http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/2011/05/27/treasury-wants-us-to-be-happy-too/comment-page-1/#comment-179815
I think some might be commenting without watching the video. The vision is to encourage the type of businesses,like FnP healthcare, that have a small world niche. When we encourage innovative thinking in our young people and support businesses in R&D we can get the 100 businesses that Sir Callaghan is on about. Tourism, although good, has lots of problems for us. Manufacturing highly specialised, high value, light weight items gives NZ much more security. We just need the NZ companies to develop those items.
@ Linda
We need more than just ‘companies developing those items’.
What is required is ongoing, active and direct stimulus into area NZ sees future benefit in (such as by R+D credits, state capital injection via PPP, investment tax breaks, rebranding NZ as a tech incubator to attract foreign IP and capital, preferential government contracts) – basically stuff that every other country in the world does.
@Gregor W
Agree with you. Your points would all encourage companies to develop the type of items Sir Callaghan sees as a road out of our current situation.
Ever get the feeling that we are missing the main agenda.