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Working Papers
[ Last Updated 4 September 2008 ]
- SMEs in New Zealand: Structure and Dynamics
This report aims to provide a statistical summary of the nature of the SME sector in New Zealand, examining its significance to the economy, its financial performance, the dynamics of SMEs - births, deaths and transition rates, and the significance of the SME sector internationally.
- Enterprising Intellectual Property - Enabling Exit of Intellectual Property from the Publicly Funded Science and Technology System
This paper develops a theoretical framework with which to understand the unique characteristics of New Zealand's innovative and absorptive capacities.
- Economic Growth and the Size and Structure of Government
This analysis indicates New Zealand has a relatively small government sector. However, the structures of both Government revenues and expenditures warrant attention.
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Global Connectedness and Bilateral Economic Linkages - Which Countries?
This paper aims to answer the question if there a key set of countries with which New Zealand should be seeking to form deeper bilateral economic relationship, reviews the benefits from deeper external bilateral economic engagements and then develops criteria for selecting countries as partners for deeper bilateral economic linkages across six global connectedness dimensions: FDI, R&D links, trade in goods, inbound tourism, education exports, and people linkages.
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Advancing Economic Development
This briefing paper provides an overview of our thinking about economic development policy and describes how the Ministry endeavours to integrate our activities to achieve key outcomes across the economy.
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An Interface between Entrepreneurship and Innovation - New Zealand SMEs Perspective
An exploration of the basic notions and theory underlying entrepreneurship, innovation and public policy initiatives.
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