Wool to Weta
Transforming New Zealand's Culture and Economy
Evaluating the competitiveness of New Zealand's current economy, this authoritative analysis argues the need to switch from agriculture and tourism as the economic backbone of the country and suggests that the emerging industries of science, technology, and intellectual property will offer more prosperity. Highlighting interviews with entrepreneurs who are creating successful science- and technology-based businesses--including Weta workshop, the cinema special effects company that worked on the Lord of the Rings film trilogy--the study explores vital topics regarding sustainable wealth and cultural change. Interviewees include physicist Andre…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-86940-438-3
- EAN: 9781869404383
- Produktnummer: 4597343
- Verlag: Auckland University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.2 cm 235 g
- Abbildungen: illustrations, portraits
- Gewicht: 235
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Paul Callaghan was born in Wanganui, New Zealand. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford University, working in low temperature nuclear physics. On his return to New Zealand he began researching the applications of magnetic resonance to the study of soft matter at Massey University, and in 2001 was appointed Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. He also heads the multi-university MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. Paul has published around 220 articles in scientific journals, as well as Principles of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (Oxford University Press, 1994). In 2001 he became the 36th New Zealander to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. He is a founding director of magritek, a small Wellington-based company that sells NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) instruments.
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