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ACERE academic entrepreneurship conference

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The 2020 Conference will be held in Adelaide and we are proud to announce that The University of South Australia are our 2020 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 academic leadership of the conference, please click here.

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

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History

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 conference program, with the University of Queensland hosting the Doctoral Consortium.  

In 2019, along with his appointment as ACE Director, Martin Obschonka took the reins as ACERE Academic Chair with the 2019 conference held in Sydney co-hosting with The University of Technology Sydney.

In 2020 we travel to the beautiful city of Adelaide and are very pleased to have The University of South Australia as our co-hosts.

The 2020 ACERE Conference is proudly co-sponsored with the University of South Australia

Key Dates

Doctoral Consortium, Tuesday 4 and Friday 7 February 2020

Entrepreneurship Educator’s Forum, Tuesday 4 February 2020 @ Flinders University

Academic Paper Program & PDS @ UniSA Campus, Wednesday 5 through to Friday 7 February 2020

ACERE Conference Registration fees are:

General Registration AUD $950.00 (inc GST)

Student Registration AUD $550.00 (inc GST)

Testimonials

The ACERE conference was extremely well organized. Communication, planning and execution; it all works perfectly. High academic standard, very skilled participants, nice presentations, interesting topics and discussions, as well as relevant key-notes and a nice atmosphere. A truly great conference.
Martin Senderovitz
I have been in touch with ACERE for more than ten years. This is a great venue for young scholars to learn from each other and a great opportunity to closely interact with top scholars in the field of entrepreneurship research. I deeply appreciate the efforts of the organizing team in initiating a great learning environment among participants. Doctoral consortium, pitching, and paper development session are the examples of those initiatives.
Thanaphol Virasa
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
As a first-time participant and a new doctoral student just 6 months in, the conference has been extremely useful for me in terms of my own personal learning and in meeting new, liked-minded individuals. I would definitely encourage more of my friends to apply the conference in the future.
Thomas Ding
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
I really enjoyed the conference – it is great value, something that you cannot say of many conferences.
Martie-Louise Verreynne, University, QueenslandAUSTRALIA
I particularly enjoyed the PhD Consortium
PhD CandidateCANADA
‘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
A fantastic conference. Quality of papers and quality of feedback provided is of a high standard. The key notes were superb. The size of the conference supports a real community feeling amongst the participants.
Jillian Gordon
I really enjoyed DC and main conference. It was really a wonderful experience for me.
Linh T. Nguyen, University of NSW

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