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Gluckman tells Auckland to get cracking
Gluckman tells Auckland to get cracking
By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 17 Jan. 2012 ) In giving a push/shove as Auckland as an innovation or knowledge city, chief science advisor Sir Peter Gluckman reckons the country could expect area like industrial design and digital and media research to have a high presence.
In his ‘Auckland conversation’ speech of early December (see here), Glucklman says that Wynyard quarter innovation proposal would have such a characteristic.
The election announcement that IRL is going to be remoulded into a much larger organisation, with a much larger Auckland footprint (of which the broad brushstrokes let alone the detail has still to be worked through) will be part of the innovation concentration.
Along with better linking of academia, entrepreneurs and industry working together much more closely, Gluckman acknowledges another challenge – if/when Auckland gets its act together as NZ’s only international city.
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