Welcome to April Newsletter from The Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (ACE)! The activities and events of the first quarter of this year highlights further steps towards fulfilling ACE’s two missions: 1) to sustain our position as leading in Australia and highly recognised internationally as a leading producer of entrepreneurship research, and 2) to be a major hub for making entrepreneurship research accessible and useful to practitioners.
We ended 2011 with a very successful Paper Development Bootcamp that always provides a fantastic opportunity for getting research papers in shape for publication in prestigious scholarly journals. Our first year of hosting the renamed AGSE conference, now called ACERE (Australian Centre of Entrepreneurship Research Exchange), occurred early February. From all accounts it was a resounding success. As always a large number of international researchers like to call ACE their base in the early part of the year! This year has been no exception – we have had several international visitors, which provides fantastic opportunities for collaboration and sharing of ideas. We have also had a number of our team achieve some great successes, and recognition. Recently released reports on female Entrepreneurship in Australia have received reasonable levels of media interest, as did our recent practitioner-orientated seminar by Dean Shepherd on Learning from Failure. As regards making research accessible and useful to practitioners we are also working with the federal Department of Innovation (DIISRTE) on producing policy reports from the CAUSEE project. Many of these stories are covered in this newsletter.
April marks the start of a deliberate use of social media and the web to ensure that more people, than simply our academic colleagues, are able to get access to the great scholarly research that both us and all our colleagues, no matter where they are do. We encourage you to widely share our blog, our website and follow us on twitter @qutace.
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