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Four business incubators around New Zealand will benefit from awards totalling $310,000 from the Government's incubator support programme.

The awards are the first in the 2001-02 funding round, for which $1.5 million is available.

[Address to Bell Gully hosted seminar on venture capital, Wellington]

You’ve invited me to explain how the Government’s New Zealand Venture Investment Fund will contribute to economic growth and the formation of successful new companies.

[Address to Public Service Senior Management Conference 2001, Te Papa, Wellington]

In 1984 the Treasury gave Roger Douglas a briefing paper, which many of you will remember well, called Economic Management.

[Address to Economic Development Association of New Zealand (EDANZ) conference, Invercargill)

You've asked me to talk about the relationship between science, technology and economic and regional development.

New Zealand's petrol consumption has fallen, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Economic Development.

[Address to the IT Investment Forum, organised by the IT Investment Network Ltd, Auckland.]

I'd like to thank the IT Investment Network the invitation to be here. It is very timely.

The Government has appointed a six-member advisory board for the new $100 million New Zealand Venture Investment Fund.

Twelve business incubators around New Zealand will benefit from the first round of awards from the Government's new incubator support programme.

[Address at the launch of at launch of NZ Institute of Economic Research publication Global player? - Benchmarking New Zealand's competitive upgrade - Kimble Bent's, Parkroyal, Wellington]

Thank you for the opportunity to speak.

The Government's support programme for business incubators is being boosted by more than $1 million a year.

The Government is establishing a support agency and cash awards to help New Zealand's business incubators, Minister for Small Business Pete Hodgson announced today.

Real economic progress needs the creation of new businesses and the application of new technologies. These are the changes that take us forward, that bring fundamental improvements in productivity and wealth.

[Address to Counties-Manukau Business Forum]

(Address to the IIR Corporate Venture Forum).

Last year I visited Israel and California's Silicon Valley. I met innovators, venture capitalists, researchers, some smart politicians and officials and a few economic visionaries.