With some 10,000 attendees, the Meeting of the Academy of Management is the biggest annual conference there is for business school academics. At this year’s event in Boston, Aug. 9-13, one of many ACE activities was a Professional Development Workshop organised by Per Davidsson and Frederik von Briel. The workshop revolved around the…
Several key Queensland organisations form a part of Team Queensland, who have participated in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (MIT REAP). This project, led by the Queensland University of Technology and being undertaken in collaboration with the Queensland Government, RedEye…
Immigrants are much more likely to engage in entrepreneurship out of either necessity or opportunity. Approximately one in four Australian are migrants. More recently China and India have become key sources of suitably skilled migrants in addition to historical countries of origins such as England and New Zealand. Many of the new
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is the world’s pre-eminent study of entrepreneurship (www.gemconsortium.org). GEM provides a rigorous and standardised process to data collection to deliver high quality and comparable information. Read more
Today we published a new ACE study that is a collaboration with researchers from the UK and Germany that visited ACE last year to work on this project. This study is the first to map psychological courage (“persistence despite fear”) across regions, using big data from almost 400k US residents. We found interesting effects (but be…
Entrepreneurship in its various forms (e.g., growth-oriented start-ups, innovation-driven entrepreneurs, social enterprises, intrapreneurship) is increasingly recognised as a major driver of economic and societal development. As a result, entrepreneurship has grown to become a major field of inquiry within economic, organisational and…
ACE colleagues and friends, You are invited to put forward your expression of interest to participate in the 2018 annual ACE Bootcamp. The ACE Bootcamp provides an opportunity for researchers to focus on the crafting and development of existing paper drafts, conference papers, previously rejected manuscripts and other file drawer…
Some nice coverage in The Australian’s Research Supplement this week: QUT highlighted as #1 in Entrepreneurship research and Per Davidsson at the top of the “Lifetime Achievement Leaderboard” among Australian researchers in “Business, Economics & Management”. The article is based on data from “League of Scholars” which apply their own…
In celebration of Queensland Small Business Week The Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research [ACE] co-hosted a breakfast event with QUT’s The Foundry where we had the pleasure of seeing our ecosystem come together to exchange ideas, expertise, stories, and realise greater opportunities. Big thank you to those who were able to…
Michal Kosinski (Stanford University, USA) Assistant Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business and former Director of the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre. Michal Kosinski is a worldwide renowned and leading expert in collecting and analyzing large datasets via online methods and social media. His work received…
International press release by the University of Cambridge on ACE researcher Martin Obschonka’s study on old coal regions in the UK and US. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29154557?dopt=Abstract http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/industrial-revolution-left-a-damaging-psychological-imprint-on-todays-populations
Senior Research Fellow / Principal Research Fellow, The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, QUT Business School, Brisbane, Australia
This position is suitable for applicants with an interest and track record in Social Entrepreneurship as well as other areas of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies. Just like the