Our major research and publication effort falls within entrepreneurship and innovation and the development of knowledge and resources for business development and growth. Our experienced research team includes international and national academics from various disciplines including business: accounting, management, marketing, entrepreneurship, creative industries and innovation. A variety of areas of research interest include nascent entrepreneurship, firm growth, entrepreneurial processes, high potential start-ups, entrepreneurship research methods, gender and entrepreneurship, knowledge management, networks and clusters, leadership, executive development, new venture risk recognition and risk mitigation strategies. We are currently in a number of major projects:
CAUSEE: The Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence
2006 – 2009: $455,000 ARC Discovery Grant
Chief investigators: Professor Per Davidsson and Associate Professor Paul Steffens.
Firm Early Development and Performance (FEDP): A Panel Study
2007-2009: $263,000 ARC Linkage Grant; $190,000 National Australia Bank and BDO Kendalls
Chief investigators: Professor Per Davidsson, Associate Professor Paul Steffens, Dr Jason Fitzsimmons, Dr Siri Terjesen
A comparative study of knowledge transfer and contribution to diffusion, innovation and socioeconomic transformation.
2007 – 2010: ARC linkage grant of $325,000
Chief Investigators: Professor Rachel Parker, Dr CS Gunasekara; Dr DC Hine; Dr AB Griffiths
A cross-national comparison of novel market-pull technology transfer programs which facilitate research organisation commercialisation through dynamic SMEs
2006-2007 ($58 000 ARC Linkage, $30 000 AIC)
Chief Investigators: Dr. Damian Hine, Professor Rachel Parker and Dr J. Kapeleris
Bibliometric Analysis of Entrepreneurship Journals
EIC Project ($8,000)
Invesigators: Dr Thomas Karlsson and Dr Amanda Elam
venturing.