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ACERE Conference

The 2019 Conference will be held in Sydney and we are proud to announce that The University of Technology Sydney are our 2019 co-hosts.

ACERE stands for Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange, an annual conference in its 16th year.  Initiated by Professor Murray Gillin AM and inspired by the Babson College Entrepreneurship Conference (BCEC) in the United States, these conferences were organised annually by Swinburne University (and co-hosts around Australia and New Zealand) under the label “AGSE IERE” (2004-2011).  Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE) has produced the ACERE Conference since 2012.

The conference covers a variety of Conference Themes, which you can read more about here.

To read more about the following groups of people involved in the conference, please click here.

  • Conference Organisers
  • Conference Committee
  • Doctoral Consortium
  • Paper Development Session

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History – 2004 to 2016

Originating from attendance at the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference (USA), the first AGSE-Babson College Regional Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Exchange Conference was held at Swinburne University of Technology in 2004.  At this first iteration of ACERE, 87 Papers were presented during the two days of exchange sessions representing 45% from Australia, 25% from New Zealand, and 30% from the rest of the world, particularly Europe and UK.  Following the Babson model, the proceedings of the Exchange were published in “Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research” – 33 papers published in full along with 53 extended summaries.

In late 2004 and with Babson College no longer partnering with Swinburne’s Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship (AGSE) to facilitate the regional entrepreneurship research conference, the name be changed to the AGSE Entrepreneurship Research Exchange and was later known as AGSE-ERE.

Following invitations to interested academic schools, the committee for the 2005 conference included: Queensland University of Technology; University of South Australia; Swinburne University of Technology; RMIT University; University of Western Australia; UNITEC New Zealand; Massey University New Zealand; Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

The 2005 conference was again held at AGSE with 91 papers presented and a PhD consortium. A new initiative was the inclusion of international keynote speakers who reviewed opportunities for entrepreneurship research.

The 2006 AGSE-ERE was held in Auckland, New Zealand and jointly sponsored by UNITEC and Massey Universities.

Subsequent AGSE-ERE conferences were hosted by Queensland University of Technology, 2007; Swinburne University of Technology, 2008; University of Adelaide, 2009; University of the Sunshine Coast, 2010; and Swinburne University of Technology in 2011.

In 2011, responsibility and management of the AGSE-ERE was transferred to the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE) at Queensland University of Technology under the chair of Professor Per Davidsson and under the new name “ACERE”.  ACERE stands for “Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange” thus marking the continuity with its predecessor.

ACE has continued the tradition of partnering with other universities to deliver the conference in a different location annually, with the 2012 conference in Perth, at the University of Western Australia, 2013 in Brisbane, at Queensland University of Technology, and 2014 in Sydney at UNSW, Australia.  The 2015 conference was held in Adelaide and was co-hosted by The Entrepreneurship Commercialisation and Innovation Centre, The University of Adelaide. In 2016 ACERE was held on Australia’s beautiful Gold Coast with co-hosts Griffith University.  In 2017 the conference traveled to Melbourne and was co-hosted by RMIT.  In 2018 we returned home to Brisbane at the Gardens Point Campus of QUT for the main confernce program, with the University of Queensland hosting the Doctoral Consortium.   In 2019 Martin Obschonka (incoming Director of ACE) will take the reins as Chair.  The ACERE 2019 will travel to Sydney with our cohost for  being The University of Technology Sydney.

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The 2018 ACERE Conference is proudly co-sponsored with The University of Technology Sydney

Key Dates

Doctoral Consortium
Tuesday 5 and Friday 8 February 2019

Full Paper Program & PDS @ UTS, Sydney
Wednesday 6 through to Friday 8 February 2019

Abstracts submissions due 17 August 2018

Full papers received by 1 November 2018 will be peer reviewed.

Presenting author registration due no later than 14 December 2018 for your paper to be included in the program.

Testimonials

Thank you for hosting a very successful and enjoyable conference. I am looking forward to build my career and network by taking part in the future activities of ACE.
Saskia de Klerk, University, New South WalesAUSTRALIA
I wanted to thank you and congratulate you on the format and quality of the conference. I had the chance for one my papers to be included in the PDS session, and I believe it has truly been helpful. The initial as well as PDS reviews were of high quality, and the exchanges during the session itself, outstanding. I hope you will re-conduct this format in the future!
Virginie Vial, Kedge Business School
Thank you so much for this very well organized and high quality conference.
Charlott Menke, Otto-von-Guerick Universitat
I’d just like to thank you again for the great conference – We learnt so much from all the different sessions, the experts and it was great to be able to get personal feedback.
Retha Scheepers, University, the Sunshine CoastAUSTRALIA
As a practitioner, I thorougly enjoyed the 2014 ACERE conference in Sydney.  Unlike the other BIG entrepreneurship conferences that I have attended, ACERE covers many of the important issues and topics in entrepreneurship research and also provides a rich practitioner and policy perspective. More importantly the ACERE conference team were entrepreneurial in their thinking- they knew the needs of their customers, the participants, quite intimately and provided an awesome customer service. The co…
Dr. Suresh Kumar, Founder and CEO, NexAge Technologies USA Inc/Green Earth LLC and Game Changers LLC
‘I just wanted to let you know that ACERE was the best conference I’ve ever attended. Fantastic people, fantastic food, fantastic location(s), fantastic events, and on and on. This was my first time to Australia and I’m completely smitten. In sum, thanks for an amazing experience and I hope to be a life-long attendee moving forward!’
David Gras, University of Tennessee
I particularly enjoyed the PhD Consortium
PhD CandidateCANADA
It was amazing how much mentorship was embedded into the consortium and conference. I truly do believe that I gained tremendous value from attending the conference. Thank you all so much for sharing.
Sharon Simmons, PhD CandidateSyracuse University USA
Thanks again for providing our research community with such an inviting and generous conference.
Professor Lene Foss, The Arctic University of Norway
I gained a great deal from this session, particularly the need to properly frame the paper (and any paper), and ways to link my research to the theory. In addition, the discussion helped me to work out a “template” that I can apply to a number of research ideas that I have vaguely been thinking about. This was a really valuable session for me, and it helped me to finish the conference on a very high note.
Peter Balan, University, South AustraliaAUSTRALIA

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