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Who will benefit from New Zealand’s investment in pip fruit research now?

Who will benefit from New Zealand’s investment in pip fruit research now?
There are interesting implications of the potential takeover of Turners and Growers by the Munich based BayWa Aktiengesellschaft for New Zealand horticultural research investment. Implications for research in general and for the Crown Research Institute Plant and Food in particular. Interestingly (on a personal basis), I can’t tell from Plant and Food’s Statement of Corporate…
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An Innovation Strategy for New Zealand

An Innovation Strategy for New Zealand
Last month I was at a reunion symposium for the Gait group at the Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge. I was working there in the late 1980’s when automated chemical synthesis of DNA had just been pretty much sorted and we were getting to grips with solid phase synthesis of RNA (a much more…
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Like Ballet, it’s all a matter of balance and confidence

In a recent Guardian there is a nearly two page spread on Ethan Steifel, the new director of the Royal New Zealand Ballet , coming to live in Wellington. It caught my attention because I was surprised to see such a considerable investment of space by an international paper on this one time ‘tame colonial…
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