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…
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…
Permanent and Long Term Migration: The Big Picture Last Publication Date: 01 Jan 2011 The monthly release of New Zealand’s permanent and long term migration figures typically attracts intense public interest – the focus usually being on the flow of…
Managing the implications of public private partnerships Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2011 This paper builds on our 2006 report, discussing PPPs as part of a partnering spectrum that is being used to respond to the future costs and…
Measuring business births and deaths in quarterly job-flow data: Using the Linked Employer-Employee Dataset (Stats NZ WP 11-03) Last Publication Date: 01 Nov 2011 This paper’s purpose is to develop a suitable method to identify the contribution that start-up businesses (business births) make to total job creation in the New…
