Simon Hendery wrote an excellent article on the NZ Herald Website entitled “Blueprint for an Innovative New Zealand“. Simon interviewed a number of attendees at Cisco’s recent roundtable on “Inspiring New Zealanders to Innovate”.
Former Intel NZ MD Scott Gilmour echoed my comments from last week’s nzangels.com podcast interview with Doug Woolerton, that ‘[y]ou can’t be a globally successful company based here, I don’t think … So let them go, encourage them to go – just like our kids go on their OE – but try and retain more and more significant ownership stakes so that as they succeed and generate a capital return to shareholders, those returns are invested into further companies, so that cycle keeps repeating.”
The rest of the article is well worth a read … good work, Simon!
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