Should the focus of publicly provided small business assistance be on start-ups or growth businesses? Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 How is New Zealand best able to maximise the potential of its enterprise population? The simple answer is that it has to ensure that the "rules…
Inquires: International freight transport services Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 New Zealand importers and exporters spend about $5 billion on freight services each year. These services provide essential connections between New Zealand and the international economy…
Innovation and the city: Review of the Auckland regional innovation system Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 Place matters in innovation. New ideas – and the capability to translate them into innovative goods, services, processes or markets – rely on the sharing of…
Business Strategies and Employment Decisions: Interviews with New Zealand Firms Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 A firm’s business strategy does not exist in a vacuum; it requires employees to implement it. However, firms often say that they have difficulties hiring certain…
A Good Worker is Hard to Find: Skills Shortages in New Zealand Firms Last Publication Date: 01 Apr 2012 This paper examines the determinants of firms’ skill shortages, using a specially-designed survey, the Business Strategy and Skills (BSS) module of the Business Operations Survey. We…
Commercialisation of university research Last Publication Date: 01 Mar 2012 This occasional paper uses new data from the University Commercialisation Offices of New Zealand to look at trends in the commercialisation of university research in New…
What we get for what we spend: outputs and outcomes of the Government's tertiary education expenditure 2006-2010 Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012 This report synthesises the inputs, outputs and outcomes of the Government's tertiary education expenditure over the period 2006 to 2010 in eight key funds. In total,…
Learners' participation, retention and success in e-learning: An annotated bibliography Last Publication Date: 01 Feb 2012 This report gives an overview of the literature on tertiary learners’ participation, retention and success in e-learning. We selected a large selection of research literature which…
Engagement between business and community organisations Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011 A summary of research into businesses’ current practices, needs, motivations and experience sounding supporting community organisations. The report also includes advice on practical steps community organisations…
Doing Better for Māori in Tertiary Settings Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011 The TEC commissioned this literature review and the development of draft indicators resulting from the literature to inform and guide an understanding of what TEOs can…
