Peter D Gluckman

Jan 14, 2025 | issues.org | Vaughan Turekian |Peter D Gluckman |Vol. XLI

As the need to prioritize global science diplomacy intensifies, Vaughan Turekian and Peter Gluckman confront some critical questions: How can science and technology, which are increasingly entangled with the geostrategic and economic ambitions of individual nations, be leveraged as instruments of diplomacy? And within this new geopolitical framework, how can we shift the scientific mindset to focus on broader matters beyond security concerns?

Dec 22, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Peter D Gluckman

Lists of the most innovative countries are dominated by small, advanced, economies including Finland, Denmark, Ireland, and Singapore. This is reflected in their economic performance – they hold their share of GDP despite much changing around them. But New Zealand does not even rank in such lists – we remain a disappointing outlier. If we look in detail at these countries, and even at much larger countries including China and the United States, it is cities that are the core units of innovation.

Dec 11, 2024 | businessdesk.co.nz | Peter Griffin |David Chaplin |Paul McBeth |Peter D Gluckman

After four years of planning and construction, Microsoft’s Auckland-based hyperscale datacentre is now live and onboarding customers.Thursday marks the official launch of the Azure datacentre region, which relies on a large datacentre at Westgate in Auckland, which Microsoft’s accounts show it has spent over $1 billion on in the last year. Two other datacentres in Auckland will offer redundancy and backup capability.

Dec 10, 2024 | businessdesk.co.nz | David Chaplin |Paul McBeth |Peter D Gluckman |Maria Slade

The ’20s, according to seminal US fund manager MFS Investment Management, was “marked by a feverish optimism, new innovations and the question ‘what will they think of next?’”“Hearing so many get-rich-quick success stories, many people began wondering how they, too, could get rich quick.”That was the 1920s, of course: not much has changed except the get-rich-quicker technology.But 100 years ago, Fomo (fear of missing out) in US stock markets was facilitated by opaque closed-end funds that...

Dec 9, 2024 | businessdesk.co.nz | Dileepa Fonseka |Rebecca Stevenson |Peter D Gluckman |Oliver Lewis

Ahead of an expected emissions reduction plan announcement from the Beehive, the Green Party says it wants the Government to take equity stakes in high-emissions private companies and look at renationalising gentailers.Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick announced the proposals in Auckland on Sunday as part of an alternative Emissions Reduction plan that would help NZ meet its 2030 climate goals under the Paris Agreement by cutting five times more emissions than the Government signalled in its...