Explaining the role of universities, a spokesperson from Education New Zealand (ENZ) said that three New Zealand universities, have joined forces to encourage entrepreneurship through an entrepreneurship project funded by the government. Kempers added there is a special visa category for foreigners to come and start businesses in New Zealand. Another measure taken by the New Zealand government to encourage businesses is the Innovative New Zealand programme under the ministry of business, innovation and employment. Universities supporting innovation and entrepreneurshipUniversity of AucklandThis New Zealand University features in the latest Reuters Top 75: Asia's Most Innovative Universities rankings. UniServices has, on behalf of the University, over 1,200 active projects with more than 300 New Zealand firms at any one time.

Source: dna December 05, 2017 01:23 UTC