Synthesis of New Zealand TUI research and policy implications: is it time to support user invention in New Zealand?

In New Zealand, as in many countries, innovation is an important topic, one which is seen as vital to economic success. Currently, many New Zealanders are concerned with our present level of innovation, and comparisons with Australia and other countries are taken to indicate that we need to boost our rate of innovation in order to catch up. Within the OECD, New Zealand’s GDP per capita is below the OECD average and in less than four decades New Zealand has slipped from the OECD upper decile to 23 position out of 31 (OECD 2010). Such slippage is usually considered as caused, in whole or in part, by a failure to innovate.

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