An organisation representing entrepreneurs wants the principles of economic initiative to be taught in schools from a young age.
It says this would help spread an entrepreneurial mindset through the community.
And there should be changes at the other end of the educational spectrum, to make better use of potentially valuable discoveries by university academics.
These are among 25 recommendations contained in an Entrepreneurship Manifesto being presented to politicians.
It was put together by an organisation called GEN NZ, which is the local branch of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN).
GEN operates in 200 countries with the aim of making it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale up a business.
GEN NZ wants the same thing to happen here and so is writing to politicians across the spectrum seeking support.
On teaching enterprise in schools, GEN NZ wants to build entrepreneurial talents by including experiential learning from an early age in a revised curriculum.
In the tertiary sector, GEN NZ says the potential of academic research is often missed.
So, there should be rewards via science funding allocations to encourage potential commercial outcomes of scientific discoveries. And more independence for researchers is recommended.
"There should be fully funded, embedded, incubation programmes within at least one university in each region that have a degree of autonomy from university bureaucracy," the manifesto reads.
Other parts of the manifesto say the Government should use entrepreneurial methods within its own administration. It should also spread cutting-edge systems beyond big city tech companies to New Zealand's regions.
And there should be improved immigration processes with less red tape to encourage immigration by people with entrepreneurial flair.
And as an offshoot of this, there should be strong connectivity with international developments.
Meanwhile, GEN NZ is rejecting any suggestion that issuing a political manifesto conflicts with the essential nature of entrepreneurship.
After all, entrepreneurs are risk-takers by definition - they set up new enterprises with or without state support, and so do not need political approval.
But GEN NZ chairperson, Dave Moskovitz, says there is more to it than that.
"There are things the Government could do that would make entrepreneurship a lot easier," he says.
"Helping our tamariki learn entrepreneurial skills at a very early age can practically guarantee that in future we will be competitive."
Moskovitz says children are inherently curious and this should be made the most of.
"I am talking about pre-school and primary school kids learning how to take managed risks and to validate assumptions and to explore the world around them.
"When kids are little, they are always asking why, why, why, and that is wonderful, we should be encouraging that, but somehow we miss that opportunity. We don't really have that as part of our formal education system."
Moskovitz goes on to say companies set up by entrepreneurs often have a low environmental impact compared with traditional companies, and this is another plus for entrepreneurship.
The current Government is not too worried about this issue. It thinks entrepreneurs already have official encouragement.
The issues raised by GEN NZ were put to a Government Minister, Duncan Webb. He is Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Minister of State Owned Enterprises, and he thinks the system is quite well set up right now.
"By international standards, we have an extremely high ease-of-doing-business rating," he says.
"I think we have low regulatory thresholds for entering business, we have great tax incentives around research and development.
"I think we are a really business-friendly country and really want to drive a productive economy."
It is frequently argued that the tech sector is shooting ahead in leaps and bounds anyway. The latest annual report of the umbrella body, NZTech, gives a snapshot of the current situation. It says the sector contributes $20 billion to New Zealand's GDP and employs 118,000 people, among a range of other statistics.
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