Beyond the Farm and the Themepark

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Beyond the Farm and the Themepark Paul
Callaghan Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical
Sciences Victoria University of Wellington with
thanks to The Royal Society of New Zealand and
The David and Genevieve Becroft Foundation
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and with acknowledgements to
Andrew Cleland
David Bibby
Rod Oram
Sally Davenport
David Skilling
None of whom should accept any responsibility for
my views!
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My Dad
Me
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My Dad
Me
Uncle Claude
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Nathan Rothschild 1821
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Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
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Phases of Moon
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
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Moons of Jupiter
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
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Science Thinking
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
Giordano Bruno 1548-1600
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Robert Hooke 1635-1703
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Law of radioactive decay
Charles Darwin
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Rosalind Franklin
Dorothy Hodgkin
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964 "for her
determinations by X-ray techniques of the
structures of important biochemical substances"
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Alan Wilson 1936-1991
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Digital age and beyond?
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Heinrich Hertz
Guglielmo Marconi
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Alexander Fleming
Ernst Chain
Howard Florey
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John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, William Shockley
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John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, William Shockley
Carl Djerassi
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• Pasture research.
• Strain and breeding
• Nitrogen fixing role
• Bush-sickness-cobalt deficiency
• Integrated pastoral systems
• The role of phosphate
• Aerial topdressing
• The electric fence
• Milk tankers
• The science of milk products
• Mechanised cheesemaking

Geoffrey Peren
Francis Dry
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Recent history of New Zealand land cover
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Land area
Net Dairy exports
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Iceland
Japan
USA
Canada
Switzerland
Australia
UK
Greece
Spain
Ireland
Sweden
Finland
Austria
Italy
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
France
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Iceland
New Zealand
Japan
USA
Canada
Switzerland
Australia
UK
Greece
Spain
Ireland
Sweden
Finland
Austria
Italy
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
France
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prosperity
USA
Ireland
Switzerland
Iceland
Canada
Austria
Australia
Belgium,
Netherlands
Finland
UK
Sweden
France
Japan
Germany
Italy
Spain
New Zealand
Greece
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Iceland
New Zealand
Japan
USA
Canada
Switzerland
Australia
UK
Greece
Spain
Ireland
Sweden
Finland
Austria
Italy
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
France
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Dunedin September
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living room
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10
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temperature oC
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4
2
0
outdoors
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0600
1200
1800
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0600
1200
1800
time (hhmm)
22 August to 5 October
World Health Organisation recommended
EVH3 Impact of Housing on Health in Dunedin
NZ www.dunedincity.govt.nz/city/
Sarah Shannon, Bob Lloyd, Jacob Roos and Jan
Kohlmeyer
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New Zealand average
Number of deaths
New Zealand average
EVH3 Impact of Housing on Health in Dunedin
NZ www.dunedincity.govt.nz/city/
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New Zealand average
Number of deaths
New Zealand average
EVH3 Impact of Housing on Health in Dunedin
NZ www.dunedincity.govt.nz/city/
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14
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Ratio
10
8
6
4
2
0
1968
1974
1980
1986
1992
1998
2004
2010
Year
Source David Bibby, 1998
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Trend in per capita GDP relative to OECD average
shortfall US 29.2 billion
New Zealand 2006 GDP US 106.9 billion
New Zealand 2006 GDP - Per Capita US 26,200
Australia 2006 GDP - Per Capita US
33,300
OECD-NZ Institute http//www.nzinstitute.org/
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Merchandise exports for the year ended December
2006 US 25.2 billion
Travel and transportation exports for the year
ended December 2006 US 7.4 billion
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2006 US 32 billion
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Forestry and other primary
Manufacturing
Foreign earnings (US billion)
Tourism
Other food and beverage
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Fruit and vegetable
Metals
2
Dairy
Meat
Fish
0
NZ External Trade Statistics http//www.stats.govt
.nz
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A handful of slimy algae and lake weed, being
pulled out of Lake Rotoiti Photo Arno Gasteiger
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NZ Greenhouse gas emissions http//www.mfe.govt.nz
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Perceptions of Crowding by Track Surveyed
UoO dept Tourism
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Meet psycho for only 7950
Sheikh Mishal bin Hamad al Thani
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Samsung consumer electronics 1.03 m revenue,
135k profit per employee
McDonalds Fast food chain 0.07 m revenue, 9k
profit per employee
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Professor Bill Denny
PX811019, in Phase 2 trials, is a potential oral
treatment for diabetic heart failure.
Professor Garth Cooper
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Investment of public funds to build science
platforms
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New Economy Research Fund 1999-2005 300m per
annum
New Zealand
USA (and nearly everyone else)
Abt Associates report to MoRST www.morst.govt.nz
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www.morst.govt.nz
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Our place on the research funding phase diagram
Agriculture, F and F
NZ
POR
IRL
DEN
CAN
AUST
FIN
BEL MEX TA FR JPN NED SW GER SP UK
USA
Industry
Environment
Source David Bibby, 1998
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Prescriptiveness
2006/7 RFPs
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Andrew Cleland
The belief that we must concentrate on building
from our present strengths (perceived as
biotechnology, ICT and creative design) does not
make sense, and is a weakness in our present
thinking. We could well end up missing the most
important innovation, simply because it was not
in our plan. We would be much better to support
any private investor prepared to have a go,
irrespective of the field, than to restrict
ourselves to a few chosen fields. Where would
Finland be if Nokia had been restricted to
forestry? Would the 3M Corporation still be
mining, and would IBM have survived by making
only mainframe computers? Andrew Cleland CEO
IPENZ
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The sea ice of McMurdo Sound
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Magnetic resonance of sea ice
2002
2002
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From climate change to business?
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Government R and D investment 0.52 GDP OECD
average 0.67 GDP
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Government R and D investment 0.52 GDP OECD
average 0.67 GDP
78 of average below average
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Business R and D investment 0.44 GDP OECD
average 1.41 GDP
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Business R and D investment 0.44 GDP OECD
average 1.41 GDP
31 of average needs help
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Postgraduate education
World-connected, entrepreneurial, engaged with
public
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Linkage to world
AMN-1 (Wellington, 2003) AMN-2 (Queenstown,
2005) AMN-3 (Wellington, 2007)
Alan MacDiarmid Alan Heeger Hideki
Shirakawa Klaus von Klitzing Harry Kroto Stephen
Chu Jean-Marie Lehn
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Stories which inspire
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Peter Maire
Gary Paykel
Rod Drury
Neville Jordan
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Ken Stevens
Russell Smith
Angus Tait
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Rich economies must defend themselves by
remaining on the cutting edge of research,
moving into new and growing branches, learning
from others, finding the right niches, by
cultivating and using ability and knowledge.
Much will depend on their spirit of enterprise,
their sense of identity and commitment to the
common weal, their self-esteem, their ability to
transmit these assets across the generations.
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