No patents is a no brainer for New Zealand
Why spend all those years in the garage developing your wonderful software if some cheat is to come along and rip-off your creation?
Techie Isles
Darren Greenwood keeps his feet on New Zealand's shaky ground and his head up in the long white cloud.
Darren Greenwood
Darren Greenwood has been in journalism, not all of it IT, since the days of typewriters and long before the web spun its way around the world. Coming from Yorkshire, he can be blunt, and though having resided in New Zealand, as well as Australia, for quite some time, he insists he is not one of the 'sheeple!'
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Use scholarships and bonding to curb ICT skills shortages
The New Zealand government needs to do more, especially as it plays a growing role in the education sector.