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Phase 2: Impacting the rest of the world

We agonised over whether to include this section in this first proposal or not, because it might seem presumptuous to raise the broader opportunity the intervention provides before its basic premise is accepted. We decided, in the end, to risk incredulity in the interests of accelerating momentum.

Orchestrated National Ingenuity and the ensuing benefits in New Zealand productivity growth and its inevitable impact on the local economy will have a natural and inevitable impact on the rest of the world in three ways: 

1. New Zealand will attract investment from elsewhere in the world.
2. Other countries will follow our lead – as best they can – putting their own flavour and spin on things.
3. Perception and recognition of Kiwi Ingenuity will grow substantially outside of New Zealand.

These three natural results present us with a huge opportunity – the opportunity to deliberately magnify and capitalise on the effects created: 

1. Deliberately stimulate international investment and make it easy for investors to invest in New Zealand ventures, using a new framework for the ingenuity era.
2. Deliberately disseminate frameworks and solutions, both formally and informally, to accelerate recovery elsewhere in the world – not only within first-world countries, but in the third world, too.
3. Run branding campaigns to promote Kiwi Ingenuity as a vehicle for and in conjunction with the dissemination of the frameworks and solutions.

Obvious opportunities include:

1. The hosting of global ingenuity and productivity summits for different public and private sector interest groups.
2. The creation of Ingenuity Tourism – in conjunction with, for example, the Cycle Way project.
3. The creation of specific papers and courses of study in ingenuity in all of the academic disciplines at New Zealand educational institutions.
4. The creation of media documentaries, multimedia training material and books and films that serve the dual purpose of local ingenuity stimulation as well as global ingenuity dissemination – all branded and promoting New Zealand.

The objective is to establish New Zealand as the Ingenuity Capital of the world, exerting an appropriate influence on the rest of the world in that capacity and enjoying the lifestyle it secures.

See Appendix H for notes on the broader perspective and opportunity for New Zealand.