Wool to Weta Transforming New Zealand's

New Zealand has built its economy around natural resources - exporting wool, wood, meat and dairy and importing tourists. But can that economy sustain us in the twenty-first century? From the second most prosperous country on earth fifty years ago, New Zealand has slipped to the bottom half of the OECD rankings in everything from wealth to life expectancy. Whether to London or Los Angeles, nearly a million New Zealanders have moved abroad in search of better opportunities. If we are to turn around those trends, what is the alternative?

Paul Callaghan is the Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington; the head of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology; and the founding director of Magritek, a company that sells nuclear magnetic resonance instruments. He has published more than 200 articles in scientific journals and is the author of Are Angels OK?: The Parallel Universes of New Zealand Writers and Scientists; As Far As We Know: Conversations about Science, Life and the Universe; and Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Microscopy.

Preface	p. vii
Beyond the Farm and the Theme Park	p. 1
Our World-class Success Stories	p. 24
The Aspirants	p. 58
The Challenge for Science	p. 80
Maori Perspectives	p. 93
New Zealand's Prosperity	p. 119
Our Capacity to Succeed	p. 142
Epilogue: From Wool to Weta	p. 168
Index	p. 172
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Wool to Weta Transforming New Zealand's Culture and Economy

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