Young Enterprise Trust

“The Young Enterprise Trust formally known as Enterprise New Zealand Trust’s principal objective is to promote an enterprise culture amongst New Zealand School students. Young Enterprise Trust exists:

* To cultivate a growing understanding of the value of enterprise and of the contribution that the individual can make both personally and collectively to businesses, to the economy and to society.

* To promote, co-ordinate, educate and foster dialogue and programmes concerning the importance of industry, commerce, innovation and entrepreneurship in New Zealand.

* To co-ordinate and correlate the efforts of organisations and individuals whose main interests include the promotion within New Zealand of social, personal, political, philosophical, commercial, industrial, educational and practical aspects of industry and commerce.

* To arrange, develop and assist the study of and the acquisition, dissemination and application of knowledge and information concerning industry, commerce, innovation and entrepreneurship in New Zealand.

* To encourage, stimulate and aid research and investigation into industry, commerce, innovation and entrepreneurship in New Zealand and promote education in those issues.

* To promote and stimulate public interest in industry and commerce within New Zealand, both in the public and private sectors.

* To encourage, arrange for and assist students, employees and others from New Zealand to undertake specialist programmes in connection with industry and commerce and to train them in new methods of industrial and commercial enterprise.”