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We won't call it picking winners, call it focused effort
We won't call it picking winners, we'll call it focused effort - the next agenda for our science and innovation?
By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 7 April 2011 ) There's a very interesting 'occasional paper' that's just gone up on the MED website.
By its name 'Enhancing Productivity: Towards an Updated Action Agenda' you wouldn't pick it to be a slightly subversive document.
But, along with hints coming out of the general science and innovation agenda, this thought piece by MED economist Roger Procter ('not necessarily reflecting the views of the Ministry of Economic Development') lays out some logic for picking winners.
That's my term, and in fairness to Roger, he never uses it. Perhaps focused effort would be a better short hand, and go down better across the road at The Treasury.
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