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Callaghan and Hendy have highlighted a critical issue--decades in which we have underinvested in both public and private sector investment in technological research and innovation. This is a welcome and timely contribution to the critical debate on how we are to become a more wealthy and healthy society. --Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister This is an important book on where we have come from, who we are, and where we need to go. Based on an accessible discussion about the drivers of economic growth, it provides a valuable account of the significant challenges and substantial opportunities that New Zealand has. --Dr. David Skilling, director, Landfall Strategy Group-Singapore This is an important book on where we have come from, who we are, and where we need to go. Based on an accessible discussion about the drivers of economic growth, it provides a valuable account of the significant challenges and substantial opportunities that New Zealand has. --Dr. David Skilling, director, Landfall Strategy Group-Singapore

Callaghan and Hendy have highlighted a critical issue--decades in which we have underinvested in both public and private sector investment in technological research and innovation. This is a welcome and timely contribution to the critical debate on how we are to become a more wealthy and healthy society. --Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister

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Professor Shaun Hendy is deputy director of the MacDiarmid Institute and an Industry and Outreach Fellow at Industrial Research Ltd. In 2012 he won the Callaghan Medal and the Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize. Professor Sir Paul Callaghan (1947-2012; GNZM, FRS, FRSNZ) was one of New Zealand's most celebrated scientists. He was the 2011 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year.

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