Jeanius – Young Enterprise Scheme Regional Winner 2010: Lynfield College
Jeanius – Young Enterprise Scheme Regional Winner 2010: Lynfield College Here is the regional winner. The Department of Management and Marketing are happy to be the regional co-ordinator. Listen to their story on Radio Ponsonby.
Help New Zealand improve it’s GDP
Media Release: Unitec and the Young Enterprise Scheme will help New Zealand improve it’s GDP Supporting our enterprising young people is the key to improving New Zealand’s GDP according to Unitec Institute of Technology’s Head of Department or Management and Marketing, Associate Professor, Dr. Robert Davis. A report out yesterday from the 2025 Taskforce shows that New […]
Unitec DoMM staff to final awards dinner of Waitakere Enterprise Business Awards – October 2010
Friday night, 8 October was the final awards dinner of Waitakere Enterpise Business Awards. Some Unitec DoMM staff members were present at this night and saw how Professor Leon de Wet Fourie the Unitec prizes had given. The Unitec prize for innovation associate went to Snitch Incorporated. Snitch is a company that understands technology and […]
Entrepreneurs – What is the "what" these people know?
In a study conducted in Sri Lanka, the findings enabled the identification of some qualities, preferences, and ambitions of successful business managers. Most successful owner-managers have started businesses related to the industries they have previously worked. So, they knew (ie. addressing “what these people know”) all what they needed to know about the technical aspects, […]
NCEA Business Studies Teacher PD
DoMM has been delivering teacher training courses in Napier, Palmerston North, Christchurch and Dunedin over the last two weeks as part of the secondary school strategy in which DoMM engages with both staff and students in the arer of business education st school. Most who attended were upskilling before introducing NCEA business Studies to their […]
Unitec and Tonga PM agree need for increased financial literacy
Improving financial literacy is a key outcome called for in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Report on Tonga. The report is the findings of Tongan peoples’ perspectives on innovation and entrepreneurship. Tonga is the first pacific nation to participate in the GEM survey. Prime Minister Dr. Feleti Sevele, in accepting the report from Dr. Leon […]
GEM Tonga Results to be Delivered Next Week – July 26th
Associate Professor Dr Robert Davis is pleased to announce that the Tonga GEM 2009 results will be delivered and returned to the Kingdom of Tonga next week. We hope that these results will continue to contribute to the discussion in Tonga on innovation and entrepreneurship as well as help provide momentum in this area as the Kingdom moves […]
Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) – West Auckland Success
On behalf of DoMM who co-ordinate YES in West Auckland, a note to say thank you to our Young Enterprise Scheme judges, Liz Rainsbury, Helen Mitchell, and Peter Mellalieu who both terrified and encouraged our teams with a combination of exacting questions and generous praise. The judges panel was completed by Camelia Petrus ( Bus […]
Current Work on Entrepreneurship in Vanuatu 2010
Malama Solomona, Judith King and Tuna Tiseli returned back from Vanuatu on Saturday the 22nd May, 2010, completing the data collection to understand Entrepreneurship in Vanuatu. Like our work on Tonga in 2009, this study was also funded by AusAid and the research was completed by the departments staff.
Recent Work on Entrepreneurship in Tonga
In 2009, work was completed by the departments staff on entrepreneurship in Tonga for AusAid. Two sets of data were collected. The first is the Adult Population Survey, which involved a survey of the national adult population. The second consists of the National Experts’ Survey and the qualitative interview of the national experts. These surveys used […]
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