Graduate as an Employer
Along with
your very valuable Tertiary Education or Technical Vocational Training, you can
graduate with the necessary tools to become an Independent employer.
Structure your Enterprise
Assisting in
organizing and presenting your plans to access the essential incubation
facilities and systems to justify and prove its profitability.
Innovate Improvements
Supporting
your pioneering ideas to get things done more efficiently or competitively,
while legally protecting your interest.
Inventing new Products
Helping in
creating new marketable Goods, Services, Processes or Techniques, by gaining
access to scientific and market testing.
The Vision
A
culture of respect, understanding and appreciation for (Entrepreneurs)
Risk-Takers and the benefits they, have and will, add to society through
eco-socioeconomic development and in creating jobs, with all the necessary
support mechanisms accessible.
Mission Statement
To
professionally educate, encourage, develop and guide our registered
stakeholders and their ideas into viable economic sectors and sustainable
business opportunities. “The birth place
of industries”
Entrepreneurial
Development Stages
I am an Entrepreneur!
The
title Entrepreneur (Risk-taker) can refer to:
- The Independent – A
person seeking to be in control of resources to generate income and expand
operations. Whether based on a new or traditional idea, formal education
or practiced skill, or triggered by job loss.
- The Inventor – A
person or group of persons driven by curiosity and focused on developing
new tools, equipment, machinery or systems.
- The Innovator – A
person or group of persons focused on improving an idea, good, service or
process to make it more marketable.
- The Investor – An
individual or team educated and experienced in financial markets that is
focused on generating superior returns with a small percent of their total
funds under management, by seeking out new and innovative ideas.
- The Industrialist –
An Individual or team that searches to combine proven inventions and
innovations with high risk investment funding and is focused on setting up
a new or improving a traditional industry or sector.
- The Instigator – A
person or group of persons that uses an original idea or intellectual
property and skillfully masterminds it into a strategic business plan
combining inventions and innovations with high risk investment funding and
expert management techniques.
Goals &
Objectives
The
Society for Entrepreneur and Economic Development (SEED) aims to achieve two
broad goals:
- Build
wide consensus
- Promote
SEED's methods
SEED
Objectives are moving targets that can generally be categorized by the
following statements:
- Lobbying
to remove any and all legislative obstacles to the realization of SEED’s
Vision.
- Designing
and Promoting Policies and Programs that achieves SEED’s Mission.
The Governing
Body and all its various committees
The
Society’s Governing Body is elected by a majority of registered members, and
comprising of the Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer
and Assistant Treasurer with an elected representative from the registered Idea
Promoters and two representatives from present Support Donors. The Governing
Body will appoint and re-appoint a person to the post of President, who is
responsible for the daily affairs, of the Organization. The Governing Body
appoints and re-appoints all committee members and receives all reports from
all its committees.
The Admission Committee
Comprising
of the chair person of the Institute’s Governing Body and persons with proven
expertise in Science & Technology, Finance & Management, Arts &
Culture and Politics & Theology, who are charged with the responsibility of
confidentially interviewing and evaluating each and every candidate for
admission solely based on the socioeconomic benefits of the candidate’s idea.
The Appraisal Committee
Basically
mirroring the Admission Committee but charged to evaluate the progress of an
admitted idea and the idea promoters and guide to the scholarship committee to
continue or not to continue funding.
The Scholarship Committee
Fed
from the admission committee, the scholarship committee must award scholarships
to the candidates that have successfully gained admission to pursue developing
selected ideas. On the recommendations of the appraisal committee will continue
or end finance support. The scholarship committee main function is to source
scholarship funding from International Agencies, Government, the Private Sector
and individuals supported by successes and the annual audit committee report.
The Audit Committee
To
engage an independent and reputable audit firm to conduct and report on annual
audits of the organization's operations.
The Curriculum Review Committee
Headed
by the President, this committee sets criterion for the Admission and Appraisal
Committees to employ, invites accredited guest speakers to workshops and
seminars, and recommends based on the successful completion and/or other preset
criteria the bestowment of the titles ‘Entrepreneur’, ‘Support Entrepreneur’ or
‘Master Entrepreneur’ upon an individual.
Stakeholders
Organizational & Legal Structure
Idea
Promoters,
noting that one idea can have many promoters, are persons selected as
participants in the SEED’s programs to pursue developing selected ideas.
Service
Providers
comprises of social counselors, experienced private sector operators, public
policy implementers and awardees of the Organization’s ‘Support Entrepreneur’
or ‘Master Entrepreneur’ titles.
Support
Donors
offering tangible support to advance implementation such as, legal, financial,
technological and management service.
Guided
and assisted by Government Policies affecting SEED’s vision and mission, The Governing Body and all its various
committees; admission, appraisal and scholarship, are charged to administer
the operations of the Organization.
