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Speaker 1: Duneda, next city, looking to replicate the Christy boom Business South,

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Speaker 1: they've launched a new growth plan aimed at driving the

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Speaker 1: local economy. They're looking to have tourism from three hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars three hundred million dollars to four hundred and twenty million,

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Speaker 1: create fifteen thousand hig value jobs by twenty thirty four,

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Speaker 1: boosting startups from two hundred to three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: And Mike Collins is the CEO of Business South and

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Speaker 1: is with us on all of this. Mike morning, Good morning,

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Speaker 1: How are you very well? Indeed, when you talk about

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Speaker 1: wrap around support, who's providing the wrap around part? Who

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Speaker 1: what sort of agencies we're talking about?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Business South is actually firing up some raparound

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Speaker 2: support services. So we've developed an accelerated program to wrap

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Speaker 2: around businesses. So we put the businesses through a bit

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Speaker 2: of an assessment to find out where the businesses are

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Speaker 2: at currently. We then wait them against best practice and

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Speaker 2: identify where the gaps are and we start to then

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Speaker 2: match them up to what they might need, which could

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Speaker 2: be capital investment, it could be around matching them to

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Speaker 2: research to commercialization, to the University of Tago and those

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Speaker 2: types of things. So those are kind of wraparound services

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Speaker 2: we're producing just out of business South. It's right.

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Speaker 1: So you've got two things, as far as I can

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Speaker 1: work out. One the bit where I I as a startup,

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Speaker 1: as a business as or whatever need to think about

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Speaker 1: Dunedin as a place. And the other one is if

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Speaker 1: I did think about Dunedin as a place, where do

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Speaker 1: I go? Where do I click? Who do I ring

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Speaker 1: to go? Bing? There's your port your portu.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's exactly it. And I don't think people

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Speaker 2: think of dened as the first portal call for investment.

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Speaker 2: So I think these opportunities here that we kind of

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Speaker 2: got to give to the business community and Seid actually

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Speaker 2: we're doing some good stuff in silos of sectors, but

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Speaker 2: if you put it down on a piece of paper,

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Speaker 2: what does it look like? So it is about having

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Speaker 2: one place to go to to kind of channel those

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Speaker 2: ideas if people want to invest into the city. What's

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Speaker 2: going on down Here's a lot of investment in healthcare

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Speaker 2: at the moment. Obviously the one point xx billion dollar

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Speaker 2: hospital happening, another private Hospelal's got an ounce the other day.

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Speaker 2: But with all of that, it's not just about investment

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Speaker 2: in capital, it's also about investment and talent. So we're

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Speaker 2: really keen to get behind a bit of a strategy

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Speaker 2: to how we track the talent to the city as

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Speaker 2: well as the as the funding. See.

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Speaker 1: I look at people like Ian Taylor and animated research

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Speaker 1: and stuff, and his success came about because it was borderless.

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Speaker 1: In other words, he could do what he did from anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Is that the sort of thing you're looking at or

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Speaker 1: are you selling Dunedin on a cool factor? So even

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Speaker 1: if you do need geography, you still want to be there.

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Speaker 2: Now you've hit the nail on the head. I think

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Speaker 2: people like yeah, Serene and his business just shows what

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Speaker 2: you can do from a from a place where a

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Speaker 2: lifestyle attached to it. So it's it's basically saying, where

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Speaker 2: we're working in a global market, but you've got the

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Speaker 2: lifestyle to go with it. So there's there's a real

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Speaker 2: entrepreneurial kind of heart to to need and it kind

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Speaker 2: of comes through you having the polytech and university here.

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Speaker 2: So we have a lot of startup businesses that operate

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Speaker 2: in the international markets. You're quite right, it's about giving

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Speaker 2: them greater opportunity.

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Speaker 1: And cheapness come into it. It's cheaper to do business.

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Speaker 2: It is, it is cheaper to do business. I guess

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Speaker 2: what really comes across strongly in Dnina is it's we

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Speaker 2: kind of live in a village if you like. So

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Speaker 2: everyone knows everybody so you can get alongside the mentors

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Speaker 2: of Serene Taylor and the likes from a startup business

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Speaker 2: through to you know, medium to grow. So I guess

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Speaker 2: being knowing everybody reading, really real connected makes it easy

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Speaker 2: to do.

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Speaker 1: Butusiness, yeah, all right, might go well with it. I

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Speaker 1: hope it works for your business. South CEO Mike Collins

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Speaker 1: out of Dunedin this morning.

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