The ZET Foundation for entrepreneurshipinitiated by Professor
ZelenyProfessor of economics and management systems, the most cited
of Czech economists, Milan Zeleny, has initiated establishing the
ZET Foundation for massive entrepreneurship.
The ZET Foundation is being established for the purpose of
strengthening the national and international entrepreneurship with
the focus on developing national, regional and local ownership,
decision making, autonomy and self-sufficiency in order to increase
the competitivenes of Czech, Chinese and American companies as well
as other transforming economies.
While our world is rapidly and fundamentally changing, our
thinking, behavior and decision making remain unchanged, uninformed
and backwards oriented. Especially in entrepreneurship, management
and economics such self-inflicted myopia could also become
self-destructive. It is therefore necessary to generate new
knowledge, experience and practical approaches which would be
useful today and in the future, not only in the past. It is
necessary to develop talent, support enterprise and formulate
theories and methodologies corresponding to the world of
qualitative transformation and metamorphosis. The main and
fundamental purpose of the Foundation is to turn our sights
forward, in search of our own road into the future, without
persisting in driving our key institutions with our eyes fixed on
the rear-view mirror.
We are entering the Age of mass entrepreneurship and innovation;
our economies should be flourishing, not just growing; our world is
shifting from globalization to active re-localization and
regionalism. We must redirect our education from mere form to
relevant contents, from information to knowledge, and from the
description of action to the action itself.
The ZET (Zoom in Entrepreneurship and Technology) Foundation
invites association of mutually beneficial cooperation with kindred
companies, educational institutions and other foundations, as well
as with local and regional self-government, cities and communities.
The purpose of an effective working association and sharing is
strengthening of all participating parties: the more successful is
the individual, institution or region, the stronger becomes the ZET
Foundation and its support and assistance in entrepreneurial,
educational and socio-cultural flourishing of local and regional
economies.
This is not a small task and, therefore, we appeal to you and
your institution with an invitation to active cooperation and
en-gagement with this emerging foundation. In the end it will
require cooperation of many foundations, thousands of companies,
and hundred thousands of entrepreneurs to move boldly and safely
into the Age of Entrepreneurship.
Yours, Milan Zelený 15 March 2015, New York, USA
Mostly towards the members of basic regional Triad: i.e.,
interdependency of company, university and self-government -
anywhere in the world, but mostly in advanced or
advancement-seeking countries. Our purpose is to generate and
enhance the examples of success, not just propagate and support the
ex-amples of failure. Our entrepreneurial universities will seek
unspoiled and still eager to learn talents from the whole world. In
addition to entrepreneurial university, we shall also work with
corporate universities, schools and pre-schools, based on the
development of independent, critical and practical thinking in
enterprising action.
of course fully support foundations of authentic democracy,
i.e., the autonomous and party-free local self-government. All
economic and social flourish always starts in a locality or region,
never at the central ministry office.
About the ZET Foundation What are the goals of the
Foundation?
Is there a similar foundation elsewhere in the world?
With whom will the Foundation cooperate?
Specific objectives are many, but the list of six key purposes
is to be found in the table. This list will be expanded or narrowed
down, according to the changing needs. We are entering the Age of
mass entrepreneurship and innovation; our economies should be
flourishing, not just growing; we are shifting from globalization
to active localization and regionalism. New technologies stimulate
new ways of production and consump-tion, as well as new orders of
democratic self-government. The world is leaning away from
speculative finances, shares, bonds and dividends towards the real
products, services and innovations. That is why we need
entrepreneurial universities, and must redirect our education from
form to contents, from information to knowledge, and from the
description of action to the action itself. This is not a small
task and in the end it will require cooperation of many
foundations, thousands of companies, and hundred thousands of
entrepreneurs. In addition, we have to overcome the active
resistance of the state, traditional business and monopolistic
corporate giants.
I am sure there isn´t; we would not try to introduce or copy
something that already existed. It is apparent that the level of
thinking - in China, USA, Japan, and in a slew of smaller economies
(Singapore, Taiwan, etc.) - is already progressing in the outlined
directions. Even the Czech Republic can participate, especially
through the inspi-rational heritage of Comenius, the Bata brothers
and Karel Capek. This is of course conditional on the ability of
its entrepreneurial community to free itself from the de-pendency
on the political center, state business and foreign domination - in
search of its own path, as it used to be in the pre-war years.
Entrepreneurship is not the same as support for entrepreneurship;
innovation is quite different from the institution of supporting
innovation. One is production, the other consumption of
resources.
Cooperation is extended to all modern businesses of the new era,
innovative entre-preneurs, and independent, self-motivated
entrepreneurial talent from all over the world. Although the focus
will be on China and the USA, the Foundation will be reg-istered in
the Czech Republic, where we shall seek out the best Czech
entrepreneurs and enterprises. We also hope that a number of
companies, entrepreneurs and spon-sors will identify themselves -
and become active drivers of transformation and meta-morphosis of
the world, regional and local economy. We shall not actively
support traditional political sphere according to time-tested
spirit of “Let´s do it our way”. We
To who are the Foundation activities directed?
What will be the purpose of concrete activities of the
Foundation?Both purpose and contents will be evolving and become
specified over time. Our basic strategic sequence is 1. Understand
what is going on and why? 2. Adapt our action to the changes and
circumstances, and 3. Recognize and exploit new opportunities for
enterprise, products and services in the interest of flourish-ing
regions or localities.So, first we understand, adapt and identify
opportunities to be exploited. To pass through this U-A-I se-quence
would represent success for all: individual, enterprise, region and
the Foundation. Another key principle is the strategy of the “First
step”. Our world is changing so fast that we cannot expect to
foresee or predict all the consequences. But we must still take the
first step and keep continually adjusting the next ones. Strategy
is not just a description of action – it is the action itself.
Strategy is not what you say, but what you do. Our goal is not
long-term sustainability of action, but its demonstrated
self-sustainabil-ity. The Foundation cannot encourage long-term
dependency on the state support, charity or redistribu-tion of
resources. We aim not just to give fish, but teach how to farm or
catch fish.
The more successful is the individual, institution or region,
the stronger becomes the ZET Foundation and its support and
assistance in entrepreneurial, educational and socio-cultural
flourishing of local and regional economies.
1. The development of projects aimed at the renewal of national
entrepreneurship, creating innovative business culture and the
development of original products, services, and complex business
models in all areas of business.
2. The development of regions via active cooperation of regional
enterprises, local governments and universities with the aim of
achieving their synergy, autonomy and independence.
3. The development of Czech enterprises and entrepreneurs in the
area of complex systems of corporate governance, decision making
and strategic thinking, in terms of the principles of the Bata
Management System, i.e. autonomy and self-sufficiency in order to
increase global and local competitiveness.
4. The development of schools and their educational programs in
the areas of regional development, corporate management and
effective self-government, rooted in the principles of the Bata
Management System.
5. The development of Entrepreneurial university through the
innova-tive strategy of the region, which is directly involved in
the formation of new companies as the basic „carriers“ and users of
entrepreneurial knowledge. The network of entrepreneurial
universities is directly in-volved in the generation of employment,
knowledge and development of the region. Such universities not only
teach, but also actively do busi-ness themselves and produce not
only the graduates, but also the firms, in which the graduates
remain active.
6. The development of students through the study of educational
programs and practical realization of original world-class business
plans.
The ZET Foundation will be registered in the Czech Republic,
with the branches in the USA, China, Brasil, India, and others.
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The more successful is the individual, institution or region,
the stronger becomes the ZET Foundation and its support and
assistance in entrepreneurial, educational and socio-cultural fl
ourishing of local and regional economies.
The purposes of the ZET Foundation, which will be established in
conformity with the public benefi ts are:
The purposes of the ZET Foundation
1. The development of projects aimed at the renewal of national
entrepreneurship, creating innovative business culture and the
development of original products, services, and complex business
models in all areas of business.
2. The development of regions via active cooperation of regional
enterprises, local governments and universities with the aim of
achieving their synergy, autonomy and independence.
3. The development of Czech enterprises and entrepreneurs in the
area of complex systems of corporate governance, decision making
and strategic thinking, in terms of the principles of the Bata
Management System, i.e. autonomy and self-suffi ciency in order to
increase global and local competitiveness.
4. The development of schools and their educational programs in
the areas of regional development, corporate management and eff
ective self-government, rooted in the principles of the Bata
Management System.
5. The development of Entrepreneurial university through the
innova-tive strategy of the region, which is directly involved in
the formation of new companies as the basic „carriers“ and users of
entrepreneurial knowledge. The network of entrepreneurial
universities is directly in-volved in the generation of employment,
knowledge and development of the region. Such universities not only
teach, but also actively do busi-ness themselves and produce not
only the graduates, but also the fi rms, in which the graduates
remain active.
6. The development of students through the study of educational
programs and practical realization of original world-class business
plans.
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The ZET Foundation will be registered in the Czech Republic,
with the branches in the USA, China, Brasil, India, and others.
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economicshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_in_economics
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