ACE has just received $100,000 funding from the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science to conduct the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project in 2016. Now into its 17th year, the GEM project is the largest study of entrepreneurship in the world, benchmarking entrepreneurship activity, attitudes and aspirations of over 80 countries annually. The project is led by ACE Deputy Director, Associate Professor Paul Steffens and ACE has acted as the Australian GEM partner since 2010 – participated in the GEM project in 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2016. Earlier, Swinburne University participated in GEM for several years in the period 2000-2006.
Per Davidsson from ACE has, together with Jan Recker and Frederik von Briel from the Information Systems School, just received $70,000 Catapult funding from QUT’s Institute for Future Environments (IFE) for their interdisciplinary research project on IT hardware start-ups. IT hardware start-ups are an important element in the global economy and have recently witnessed a surge in interest and investment; however, to date there is no research that offers explanations for these movements. The project will identify IT hardware start-ups globally and investigate factors that foster their emergence, survival, and growth.