Corporate Traveller Magazine - Spring 2016

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The Kiwi spirit of innovation not confined to history books After two years wandering the South Pacific and Southeast Asia, Corporate Traveller returns home for this “Kiwi Innovators” edition.

In researching this edition we are first astounded at the list of world firsts born on the shores of Aotearoa, and then by the almost universal reluctance by innovators to talk about their achievements.

The reasons for this fall into one of two categories – either they don’t understand what all the fuss was about or they are too busy creating new innovations to stop and talk about old ones.

Perhaps it was the tyranny of distance that was the mother of invention and self-reliance for New Zealand. It’s likely that isolation was a blessing, forcing innovators to create novel solutions rather than looking to what others were doing.