Tagged: investment

Who’s been ‘buying up’ New Zealand? - The Dismal Science

Donal Curtin • Sep 26, 2015 •

• economics,
• house prices,
• investment,
• property

There’s a huge interest in foreign investment in New Zealand – it’s front page news when Chinese investors aren’t allowed to buy farms, or Asian investors are supposedly snapping up Auckland houses, and the piece I wrote about Statistics NZ’s data on foreign direct investment has had by far the biggest number of pageviews of anything I’ve written recently. Read More

Variability in returns to education - The Dismal Science

Bill Kaye-Blake • May 10, 2013 •

• economics,
• Education,
• investment,
• university

The headline in the LA Times was ‘College is a bad financial bet for some, study says’. The story focused on the cases in which students had a negative return on investing in higher education: A surprising 14% of high-school graduates earn at least as much as people with bachelor’s degrees, and 17% of those […] … Read More

Kiwisaver account fees - The Dismal Science

Bill Kaye-Blake • Apr 04, 2013 •

• economics,
• government,
• investment,
• KiwiSaver

I complained a while back that the information from my Kiwisaver provider was opaque. The results — whether the annual report or my personal statement — didn’t actually tell me the critical number: what was my return? If I want to compare Kiwisaver with, say, a five-year bond ladder, I need to know what the [...] … Read More

One reason for low private sector investment in research and development - Code for life

Grant Jacobs • Dec 17, 2012 •

• business,
• investment,
• Science careers

… is a lack of scientists running companies - ? This thought was offered by Peter Hodgson, a former Minister of Science and Technology to New Zealand in a speech to graduates at the University of Otago: In Germany, Japan and Scandinavia, scientists ran companies and their science influenced management decisions. ''In New Zealand, those … Read More

TOSP Episode 21: February 21st 2012 - misc.ience

Aimee Whitcroft • Feb 20, 2012 •

• aimee whitcroft,
• art,
• artificial life,
• artificial muscle,
• chameleons,
• Code for Life,
• design,
• DNA,
• education,
• electrostatics,
• Elf Eldridge,
• events,
• grant jacobs,
• hack,
• Human,
• investment,
• ISS,
• just so science,
• knitting needle,
• mass production,
• Medically-related,
• misc.ience,
• neanderthal,
• nerja,
• painting,
• podcast,
• prozac,
• Quantum physics,
• registry of standard biological parts,
• robobees,
• Roger Hanson,
• science communication,
• sequencing,
• soft motor,
• static energy,
• synthetic biology,
• The Cosmic Engine,
• The Official Sciblogs Podcast,
• TOSP,
• water,
• yoghurt

We’re back!  And with a minimum of difficulties this week :) This week, Elf and aimee talk of a new soft motor, ROBOBEES, a teeeeeensy chameleon (squee!), hacking yoghurt, some very ancient art, ROBOBEES, investing in yourself, knitting needles and water bubbles and space, quantum computing for beginners, sequencing genomes on a USB stick-sized device [...] … Read More

TOSP Episode 20: February 14th 2012 - The Sciblogs Podcast

Elf Eldridge • Feb 15, 2012 •

• 2020,
• advanced materials,
• aimee whitcroft,
• biotechnology,
• Canterbury,
• discussion,
• Elf Eldridge,
• future,
• innovation,
• interview,
• investment,
• just so science,
• macdiarmid,
• MESA,
• misc.ience,
• nanoparticles,
• nanoscience,
• nanotchnology,
• New Zealand,
• photosynthesis,
• podcast,
• research,
• Science,
• science communication,
• superconductors,
• Technology,
• The Official Sciblogs Podcast,
• TOSP,
• university,
• victoria

Greetings, TOSP listeners! This week’s podcast is a teensy bit late (heh), and a little different to usual as it was the first we’ve done and edited ‘On the Road’. We (well, Elf – aimee was driving like a loon between Auckland and Wellington as practice for the Rally) travelled to … Read More