Guangzhou is China’s third-largest city. It has a GDP of similar size to Singapore and Hong Kong, and is undergoing massive transformation. The city is moving away from low-cost manufacturing and exports and towards innovation, science and technology, and services for domestic consumption. There are various opportunities for Los Angeles and Auckland to be involved in China’s new economic blueprint, …

 The creation of networks of people is an important driver for economic development and can help to fully unlock creativity. It can be argued that China is millennia ahead of the rest of the world in terms of understanding the role of networks, and cultivating them. “The economic driver of the future isn’t a factory or a piece of technology …

There is still plenty of capital available in the United States, low-interest rates have led to record flows into investment funds. The New Zealand market is not large enough to fulfil post-capital valuations on its own. It is important from day one that kiwi companies plan to go global. “It’s important from day one that we help prospective companies in …