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Peter Kerr
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Dear David, please give us more than S&I platitudes
Tuesday, 24 April 2012, 8:47 am | sticK
Dear David, I’m afraid, if you’re trying to outflank National on the science and innovation front, you’re going to have to do much better than your speech to the NZ Academy of Scientists on April 16. More >>
Our internet-inspired impatience is only getting worse
Thursday, 19 April 2012, 9:06 am | sticK
There’s a fair number of (mostly ignored) requests to link and/or ‘write about us’ emails received by sticK. However Tony Shin tweaked an interest in the subject line, ‘A quick question about Instant Gratification’. More >>
Stop trying to Aucklandise our science and innovation
Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 8:49 am | sticK
At the risk of displaying a Wellington-residential and Southland upbringing bias, the government’s keenness for an Aucklandisation of our science and innovation strikes me as being stupid. More >>
Nope, we’re not going to hell in a handcart
Thursday, 12 April 2012, 8:27 am | sticK
The refreshingly upbeat Mark Stevenson breezed through Wellington just before Easter, giving his take on why the world’s NOT going to hell in a handcart. More >>
ACC and Ministry of Health: winners in patent battle
Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 9:50 am | sticK
Throughout the debate on the patenting of software, a battle has been quietly percolating under the radar over a NZ patent application (NZ525001) that has touched upon just about every issue in the software patent debate. More >>
IP ownership change spurs new wool research
Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 9:11 am | sticK
As agriculture’s orphan child, laden with centuries of tradition and structure, coarse wool has recently exhibited a refreshing turn of mind to attempt to spin a new future. More >>
Coarse wool’s new course weaving a different path
Monday, 2 April 2012, 9:20 am | sticK
New Zealand’s forgotten fibre’s doing its best to get itself off the mat. More >>
The 7 Deadly Sins get an innovative makeover
Monday, 2 April 2012, 9:15 am | sticK
As a bit of a sucker for an allegory, attaching thoughts about innovation to the seven deadly sins is a clever ploy and play. More >>
Developers invited to a northern hemisphere ‘Summer of Code’
Monday, 2 April 2012, 9:10 am | sticK
A couple of New Zealand based businesses are in on the wider opportunity for New Zealand-based trainee coders to gain invaluable experience (and pay) through Google’s Summer of Code. More >>
Optimising autoimmune treatment patent invalid says Congress
Monday, 26 March 2012, 3:40 pm | sticK
On 20 March the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued a decision unanimously allowing an appeal by the Mayo Clinic and declaring invalid two patents that a lower court had found Mayo to be infringing. More >>
Farming’s unfashionable, but a simple fix can make it sexy
Thursday, 22 March 2012, 2:35 pm | sticK
There are huge gains to be made in pastoral farming productivity if the average performers started doing what the top 25% do according to MAF in its Briefing to Incoming Ministers. More >>
Healthy challenge in 100 words
Wednesday, 21 March 2012, 9:03 am | sticK
Hat’s off to Grow Wellington for keeping it simple and sweet, and setting the initial bar low in its ‘Innovating for Health Challenge’. Anyone with an idea, good, bad or indifferent, only has to submit up to 100 words for a proposition with commercial ... More >>
Give us something simple Steven, and create an S&I council
Tuesday, 20 March 2012, 9:12 am | sticK
As one who cut his business teeth in commercial radio, super-minister Steven Joyce will know better than most about the importance of appealing to peoples’ hearts and minds. More >>
Mass customisation really does mean it is all about you
Tuesday, 20 March 2012, 9:05 am | sticK
It’s difficult to predict where the confluence of trends like 3-D printing, mass customisation and the social web will end up. More >>
Science & tech docos find a natural home
Tuesday, 20 March 2012, 9:00 am | sticK
documentary-log.com asked nicely, and it’s a free service with no registration – so here’s a plug for a website with over a 1000 docos to download and view. More >>
Kiwi conference to get to the core of computing opportunity
Thursday, 8 March 2012, 9:01 am | sticK
Lurking below the IT headline generating buzz of Apps and social media and smart phones is a core change racing in parallel with sometimes perceived more glamorous cousins. More >>
Science embraced: patent policy merits a brief mention
Wednesday, 7 March 2012, 10:54 am | sticK
The McGuinness Institute is to be congratulated on its exhaustive analysis of science in New Zealand, “Report 9: Science Embraced: Government-funded Science Under the Microscope” More >>
‘Facing your fears’ the unspoken part of a start-up
Tuesday, 6 March 2012, 8:44 am | sticK
Ponoko co-founder Dave ten Have fronted up to Unlimited Potential’s ‘Tech Founders Blast Talks’ in mid-February with some extremely frank and honest comments. More >>
'Ordered anarchy' delivers creative projects at better value
Friday, 2 March 2012, 12:48 pm | sticK
At first blush, a business with no bosses as such, run on a democratic basis where participants opt in on projects would seem a recipe for a disaster. More >>
'Ordered anarchy' delivers creative projects at better value
Thursday, 1 March 2012, 8:53 am | sticK
At first blush, a business with no bosses as such, run on a democratic basis where participants opt in on projects would seem a recipe for a disaster. More >>
