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Nice irony to showcasing Wellington businesses in the Beehiv
Nice irony to showcasing Wellington businesses in the Beehive
By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 15 September 2011 ) Having a showcase of cool Wellington businesses in the Beehive is a nicely ironic way to demonstrate the capital is about more than politics.
Quite who Wellington City Council Business Innovation Growth (BIG) launch yesterday is meant to appeal to is less clear.
While the fascinating mix of more than 70 companies, from a wealth of computer/internet/software companies (let's just call them the digital creative sector) to Tuatahi Racing Axes and Saws, Industrial Research to Calvert Plastics showed off their wares and brains, you'd have to suspect they wouldn't have done much business.
Hopefully they realised that before they took what would've been a whole day off to stand in front of a general political bureaucracy and people like sticK.
For sticK – science, technology, innovation & commercialisation KNOWLEDGE - is a new Wellington based news service concentrating on following the money from ideas to income. Contact editor Peter Kerr at peter.kerr055 @ gmail.com
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