title: To act or not to act? That is the question!

authors: Bruce Ferguson, Pip

abstract: The year was 2003. I was a new Research Manager working in a Māori tertiary institution that had a history of inequitable treatment by government, through not receiving establishment funding that had gone unproblematically to non-Māori institutions. Repeating a common pattern in New Zealand, our government had decided to implement a research funding scheme, to be measured at the level of the individual academic. My institution’s decision to participate in the PBRF was not without its difficulties, and it is here that the ethics of participation become problematic. This chapter is about our ability to articulate our values, to show how we work these out in our practice, and how we are accountable to ourselves and others for that practice. Would I, with the benefit of hindsight, have encouraged my institution to enter the PBRF again?

text: To act or not to act? That is the question! The year was 2003. I was a new Research Manager working in a Māori tertiary institution that had a history of inequitable treatment by government, through not receiving establishment funding that had gone unproblematically to non-Māori institutions. Repeating a common pattern in New Zealand, our government had decided to implement a research funding scheme, to be measured at the level of the individual academic. My institution’s decision to participate in the PBRF was not without its difficulties, and it is here that the ethics of participation become problematic. This chapter is about our ability to articulate our values, to show how we work these out in our practice, and how we are accountable to ourselves and others for that practice. Would I, with the benefit of hindsight, have encouraged my institution to enter the PBRF again?

year: 2013

title: Representations of diversity in the revised New Zealand PictureBook Collection

authors: Daly, Nicola

subjects: picturebooks

abstract: Collections of children’s literature are used for a range of reasons including preservation, record keeping, and more recently the encouragement of intercultural understanding. Both the signifi- cance of learning about other cultures and the importance of children seeing themselves reflected in the books that they read have been discussed extensively. In 2010, the New Zealand PictureBook Collection (NZPBC) was developed in order to create a resource that reflected New Zealand national identity. In 2015 the NZPBC was revised and this article presents a visual and textual analysis of the diversity present in the sixty books nomi- nated through the lens of critical multicultural analysis, using four variables. Findings indicate considerable diversity is present in the collection in terms of representations of ethnicity and family; less so for representations of disability and languages.

text: Representations of diversity in the revised New Zealand PictureBook Collection Collections of children’s literature are used for a range of reasons including preservation, record keeping, and more recently the encouragement of intercultural understanding. Both the signifi- cance of learning about other cultures and the importance of children seeing themselves reflected in the books that they read have been discussed extensively. In 2010, the New Zealand PictureBook Collection (NZPBC) was developed in order to create a resource that reflected New Zealand national identity. In 2015 the NZPBC was revised and this article presents a visual and textual analysis of the diversity present in the sixty books nomi- nated through the lens of critical multicultural analysis, using four variables. Findings indicate considerable diversity is present in the collection in terms of representations of ethnicity and family; less so for representations of disability and languages.

year: 2017

title: Patent-collaboration: Licensing, patent pools, patents commons, open source and communities of innovation

authors: Kingsbury, Anna

abstract: Patent pools and other models of patent collaboration are a growing feature of the patent landscape internationally. Patent collaboration can be a means of overcoming patent thicket problems, avoiding costly patent infringement litigation, reducing transaction costs and promoting efficiency and innovation. Patent co-operation is also used, commonly as a result of some form of regulatory intervention, where there are urgent issues of strong public concern. Access to medicines and climate change are examples. However, patent collaboration can raise competition law issues.
This article reviews the models for collaboration internationally, considers specific examples and considers the application of competition law and possible competition law barriers to collaboration in the New Zealand context. It argues that patent collaboration can now be used as a possible approach to promoting innovation in appropriate industries in New Zealand.

text: Patent-collaboration: Licensing, patent pools, patents commons, open source and communities of innovation Patent pools and other models of patent collaboration are a growing feature of the patent landscape internationally. Patent collaboration can be a means of overcoming patent thicket problems, avoiding costly patent infringement litigation, reducing transaction costs and promoting efficiency and innovation. Patent co-operation is also used, commonly as a result of some form of regulatory intervention, where there are urgent issues of strong public concern. Access to medicines and climate change are examples. However, patent collaboration can raise competition law issues.
This article reviews the models for collaboration internationally, considers specific examples and considers the application of competition law and possible competition law barriers to collaboration in the New Zealand context. It argues that patent collaboration can now be used as a possible approach to promoting innovation in appropriate industries in New Zealand.

year: 2013