With an open economy, highly educated workforce, some of the lowest property costs in the pacific and 100 per cent tax deductibility for research and development, New Zealand is, or at least should be, a Shangri-La for local entrepreneurs and foreign investors alike.

But New Zealand has still got a long way to go.

Despite ideal conditions for business growth and innovation, and the opportunities offered by recent improvements in communication technology, as a whole, the country’s economy, and its fostering of new ideas, has, so far, not blossomed as it should have. A long-standing focus on primary industries like tourism and the dairy industry has left New Zealand with relatively small manufacturing and high-tech sectors.

But someone’s doing something about it.

The ICE Ideas Conference held in July brought together more than thirty of New Zealand’s most successful entrepreneurs and business people to share ideas on what makes a successful entrepreneur, what New Zealand can do as a whole to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship, and what it will take to make New Zealand matter on the global stage.

We sat down with a selection of speakers from across the spectrum to get their take on the state entrepreneurship in New Zealand today.

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