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
Courage a double-edged sword for economic success
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…
Undertake your PhD in an important and booming context: Entrepreneurship!
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 Bootcamp – Paper Development Workshop – Call for Expression of Interest
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…
QUT highlighted as #1 in Entrepreneurship research
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…
How to external enablers influence entrepreneurial actions and outcomes
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…
Internationally-renowned Big Data scientists to speak
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…
ACE researcher Martin Obschonka releases new study
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 position @ ACPNS QUT
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
Did you miss the interview from Martin Obschonka about his Twitter-based analysis of Donald Trump’s personality profile
If you missed the 4EB RiSE interview by Dr Kim MacKenzie with Associate Professor Martin Obschonka about his recently published the article Entrepreneurial personalities in political leadership you can listen in on the shorter version that will go to AIR next Wednesday October 18, 2.15pm-3pm, on analogue radio 98.1FM. You can also…
Call for Expressions of Interest – ACE Bootcamp
The ACE Bootcamp provides an opportunity for researchers – from research students and early career researchers to full professors – to focus on the crafting and development of existing paper drafts, conference papers, previously rejected manuscripts and other file drawer ‘orphans’. The ACE Bootcamp has been running since 2007 and always…
ACE publication and media successes!
We have achieved some extraordinary publication success as well as media coverage recently. Associate Professor Martin Obschonka recently published the article Entrepreneurial personalities in political leadership in Small Business Economics, one of the highest ranked journals in our field. Much due to its Twitter-based analysis of…