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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
Life expectancy
Prison population
3/33
11/33
26/33
Math score
9/33
Science score
6/33
35%
US $40 bn
Iceland
New Zealand
Greece
Japan
USA
Canada Switzerland
Australia
UK
Spain
Sweden
Italy
Ireland
Finland Austria
Netherlands
Germany
Belgium
France
Foreign earnings (US$ billion)
2
4
Wine
6
Metals
Petrolem
Tourism
ELT
8
Manufacturing
Forestry and other primary
Fruit and vegetable
Fish
Dairy
Meat
Year ended December 2008
US$ 35 billion
0
NZ External Trade Statistics
http://www.stats.govt.nz
More tourism would be good for the New Zealand economy
NZ has 1.3 million FTE of employment
$500,000
Revenue per employee
$400,000
Fonterra
$300,000
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
FTE of employment
300,000
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
New Zealand
Abt Associates report to MoRST
www.morst.govt.nz
USA
(and nearly everyone else)
F and P appliances
Datacom
F and P Healthcare
Navico
NDA
ProvencoCadmus
Rakon
Gallagher
Weta Ltd
Tait Electronics Ltd
Douglas pharmaceuticals
Allied Telesis
Methven
Tru Test
Glidepath
Dynamic controls
CWF Hamilton
Schneider electric
Skope industries
BCS group
Humanware
Infinity group
TIN100
New Zealand Technology Companies
$500m
$400m
$300m
Annual revenue (NZ$)
$1410m
$200m
NZ Pharmaceuticals
$100m
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90
80
70
60
50
40
Rank
30
20
10
1
100
Alpine Zone
Tussock
percent total land area
80
Exotic grassland
60
Exotic forest
40
Scrub, wetlands
Recent history of New Zealand land cover
20
0
1000
Native forest
Settlements, crops
1100
1200
1300
1400
1500
year
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
Earthrace “ecoboat”
aka “Ady Gil”
Earthrace “ecoboat”
“Sustainable energy,
without the hot air”
David McKay
(UIT, Cambridge, 2008)
Lao Tzu
4th century BC
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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.”
“Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?”
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US president (1809-1865)
April 9, 1865
(Appomattox )
Paradox:
our two greatest scientists
Paradox:
if it sounds unfamiliar, it may stand a chance
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!'