and the winners are…

The ACERE main conference program was recently held in the newly established $230 million Science and Engineering Centre in the heart of our CBD QUT Gardens Point campus. 5-8 February 2013.

ACERE participants also had the pleasure of enjoying the stunning views of Brisbane River, Kangaroo Point cliffs and the City Botanic Gardens at the ACERE Awards Dinner held at Room Three-Sixty.   Brisbane’s newest premier venue, Room Three Sixty epitomises sophistication and elegance and was a very fitting venue to announce the winners of the 2013 ACERE awards.  

 

The award for Outstanding Paper on International Entrepreneurship was awarded to Sylvie Chetty and Tamara Gulkina for their paper: ‘Effectual networking during the internationalization process of SMEs‘.  This award was sponsored by IE-Scholars.

The award for Outstanding Paper on Small Enterprise Research was awarded to Rene Bakker for his paper: ‘Alternative Modes of Entrepreneurial Opportunity Exploitation: The Case of Inter-Organizational Projects ‘.  This award was sponsored by Small Enterprise Association of Australia & New Zealand (SEAANZ).

 The award for Best Empirical Paper using Qualitative Methods was awarded to Martin Bliemel for his paper: ‘On the Resource Foundations and Triggers of Lucky Events ‘.  This award was sponsored by the University of Adelaide.

The award for Best Empirical Paper using Quantitative Methods was awarded to Dorothea Werhahn and Malte Brettel for their paper:  ‘The Interplay of CEO Self-Efficacy, A Firm’s Effectual Orientation and Performance’.  This award was sponsored by the Queensland University of Technology.

Congratulations to our winners !  

Sylvie Chetty & Tamara Gulkina, Rene Bakker, Martin Bliemel, Dorothea Werhahn & Malte Brettel.

and many thanks go to the 2013 award sponsors: SEAANZ, University of Adelaide, IE-Scholars and QUT.

ACERE is the place to be !

If you want to meet great minds in entrepreneurial thinking, then the ACERE conference is definitely the place to be. For me, the conference was a real shot in the arm. It got me out of my workplace and engaged with people from around the world doing really interesting research and bringing challenging and thought-provoking ideas. The range of papers gave me the chance to get a bit better acquainted with aspects of entrepreneurship and innovation that lie outside my field, and gave me a couple of research ideas to develop over the coming year.

I enjoyed the social program and the chance to talk to very experienced, as well as very new researchers. It was instructive to learn how life is for other entrepreneurship academics, and good to get some more ideas about research approaches and methods, as well as a couple of contacts for future collaborative research. The plenary sessions were a real bonus; the keynote speaker, Saras Sarasvathy, helped me to learn something about the intersubjective and interpersonal in entrepreneurship and certainly gave me something to think about; especially as the question of how entrepreneurs arrive at financing arrangements is an area I hadn’t thought much about.

In addition, the session with Journal editors, Dean Shepherd and Per Davidsson, was really practical and motivating, and I came away with a list of categories of papers and exemplar papers which is helping me to think more clearly about research and publication planning.

The real bonus for me was the paper development session. I’m very grateful that I had the chance to take part in this. The insightful and incisive critiques helped me to work out how to properly frame my paper in relation to the theory, and also gave me the idea of a “template” that I’m applying to a couple of research ideas that I was having difficulty in nailing down. That was a really valuable session that finished the conference on a very high note and sent me home re-motivated and re-energised!

Many thanks to Peter Balan from the University of South Australia for contributing this story.

The next ACERE conference is to be held in Sydney, Australia.  4 to 7 February 2014.   For more information look out for posts on the ACERE website  www.acereconference.com

Conference Proceedings – Version 2

The conference proceedings has been updated and version 2 can be found here.

Please be aware that the conference proceedings is only available to conference delegates, if you wish to view the conference proceedings please email acereconference@qut.edu.au