We Welcome Business Innovation

New Zealand offers excellent opportunities for enterprising people with a proven track record in business and the capacity to build new businesses and introduce new skills and technologies. With a free market economy that competes globally, New Zealand provides a positive environment for investors to bring or establish operations here.

Why Do Business in New Zealand? 

• New Zealand’s demographics replicate those of larger markets and provide an excellent test-bed for new products and services.
• The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) has ranked Auckland (New Zealands largest city, located in the North Island) the OECD's top entreprenueurial city - out of all OECD cities worldwide
• Creativity drives New Zealand – from design and production of pleasure craft to super yachts, from electric fencing to ion-beam magnets, and from animated commercials to The Lord of the Rings.
• Overseas companies are already well represented in New Zealand, enjoying success in their own right or as part of a joint collaboration with local enterprise.

To find out more about the steps to take to qualify for acceptance, follow this link. For the process and timing related to your application click here. The necessary application forms for this visa type can be found here.
 

Source: Investment New Zealand
www.investnewzealand.govt.nz

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), 2008