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Key man in innovation role?
Key man in innovation role?
By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 25 October 2011 ) Well, whew, that’s the Rugby World Cup out of the way with a win, and National’s presumably looking to see if it achieves the same at the election.
Though it will be talking the talk of how it still has to front up on November 26, National’s expecting victory and therefore jockeying for cabinet positions is going on in earnest.
Last week the rumour going round was that John Key’s going to take the role of Minister of Science & Innovation.
Obviously he’s too busy doing the rest of his Prime Ministerial role to be able to carry it all out by himself, so the talk is that he’d have a couple of associate ministers to assist, with a couple of female MPs touted to do the heavy lifting.
From the country’s point of view and cranking up the economy, if Key’s serious and uses the position to really drive the ‘I’ (as in innovation) part of the equation, it could only be a good move.
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