New Zealand’s 100 inspired entrepreneurs

New Zealand’s 100 inspired entrepreneurs
MacDiarmid Institute alumnus Franck Natali. (Image: Supplied)
Nicola Gaston
Headlines citing the "brain drain" have been making the rounds again since Stats New Zealand confirmed that more than 81,000 NZers had left the country in the year to April – 41% more than the year before.  Migration is certainly not a negative, but when most of those departing are young, educated NZers for whom the economic reality of low salaries and high cost of living in Aotearoa just doesn’t stack up against life over the ditch in Australia, it is a loss for all of us. MacDiarmid Institute alumna Lily Clague...

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