Industry Forum theme: ”Towards the 2032 Games – opportunities for entrepreneurs”

When: Friday, 10 February 2023
Time: 8:30am-12:30pm
Where: Brisbane Business Hub, Level 2, 155 Queen Street, Brisbane QLD 4000 – please note this location is not part of the University of Queensland St Lucia campus, but it is located in the city centre of Brisbane

Registration: Registration to the full ACERE 2023 includes access to the Industry Forum. Please ensure you also separately register for the Industry Forum through the Industry Forum Registration link.

Brisbane will be the host city for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which is expected to deliver more than $8 billion to the Queensland and $17 billion to the Australian economy. The Industry Forum will bring together start-ups, industry, government, and academics to explore the unique opportunities presented by the Games for entrepreneurs through new businesses, projects, and partnerships.

Hear from industry experts including Dr Jan Ross, A/Prof of Strategy and Deputy Head of the Department of Management & Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School; Stefanie Wilson, CEO, Luminair; Nicolle Kelly, Executive Director, Department of Tourism, Innovation and Sport and Associate Professor Sarah Kelly OAM, Board Director, Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games Board and Associate Professor, UQ.

Please join us for ACERE 2022 (8 to 11 February 2022), co-organised by the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research (QUT) and Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship AGSE, School of Business, Law and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology.

After careful consideration of the current situation and potential future scenarios, the ACERE Academic Committee decided unanimously that ACERE 2022 will take place.

The ACERE Executive Board has decided that we are going to plan this conference to be on a ‘face-to-face basis’. This means that we are going to work on the assumption that at the very minimum, an Australia-New Zealand travel bubble will be in effect.

For our international colleagues, you will have the ability to join us virtually (except the physical social events) if the borders of Australia remain closed. If there are travel restrictions within the Australia-New-Zealand region, we will also be prepared to switch to online mode.

Because of our burst of optimist and the “long time no see” feeling, we want to create a memorable experience and therefore we will have some important news on this year’s program (stay tuned).

While the conference continues to cover all themes and aspects of entrepreneurship research, we can already reveal that the special theme of the 2022 ACERE Conference will be “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Commercialisation of Research”.

We can also announce that, like in the past years, we will also run the ACERE Doctoral Consortium and the ACERE Educators Forum as part of the ACERE 2022 conference along with having several keynotes from distinguished senior scholars and experts in the field of entrepreneurship research and practice.

While we acknowledge the level of uncertainty that many entrepreneurship researchers around the world are facing these days, the abstract submission portal opens on 17 August 2021 and will close on 17 September 2021. 

So please join us and contribute to this great community spirit that makes entrepreneurship research and the ACERE conference so special.

We are anticipating the conference fees will be in the range of $350 for standard delegates, and $150 for PhD students.

Please note: The conference covers all themes and aspects of entrepreneurship research. An invitation to submit full papers for presentation at the conference is upon acceptance to of your abstract. Further notification of acceptances and the mode of delivery will be emailed to the submitting authors by early October 2021 along with additional information on what form the conference may take and how you might deliver your presentation and interact with conference participants.  Full papers will be due on or before 5 November 2021 (only full papers submitted on or before this date will be peer-reviewed, will qualify for awards, and will qualify to be nominated for a PDS Session).

Let us make ACERE 2022 at Swinburne in Melbourne a very positive and valued experience for you and your colleagues. The 2022 conference partner, Swinburne University of Technology, together with the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, are working on an exciting academic and social program.  

Please feel welcome to forward this invitation to your colleagues and students.

Martin Obschonka
Director QUT ACE, Chair ACERE Academic Committee

Mile Terziovski
Head of Department, Business Technology and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Co-Chair ACERE 2022

Rui Torres de Oliveira
QUT ACE, ACERE 2022 Co-Chair ACERE 2022

Please note that due to COVID-19 restrictions, ACERE 2021 will be different than the previous ones.

The 2021 conference will keep the typical ACERE structure (Doctoral Consortium, Educators Forum, Interactive Paper Presentations, Paper Development Sessions, Panel Discussions, Best Paper Awards Session, Social Events) but will be offered via on online format that allows all participants, including international participants from various continents, to participate in all types of sessions in a way that guarantees a high-level of academic exchange. This also involves high-caliber keynote speakers. The conference will be accessible through our conference APP and website.  Once registered you will receive instructions on how to set up the conference APP.

In 2021 you will have 24hr access to the ‘ACERE Social Zoom Room’ to meet with other conference participants during the conference week.  The link to the ‘ACERE Social Zoom Room’ will be made available to you via the Conference APP.

Importantly, we also plan for a few activities to be held offline (physical location at Bond University, Gold Coast) – so ACERE 2021 will be a hybrid format, essentially (but those participants that cannot attend physically do not miss anything and benefit from the whole program via interactive online formats over 4 conference days).

In addition, for those that can travel and participate physically, we organised an on-site physical program at Bond University, Gold Coast, (face to face F2F) which will run from Tuesday 9 February through to Friday 12 February 2021, organised and hosted by members of the ACERE academic committee. These sessions will comprise of workshops on academic career development for early- and mid-career researchers, discussions of emerging research topics and fields, the link between entrepreneurship research, education and practice, and updates on academic publishing and top journals. We will also provide ample opportunity for physical attendees to interact with each other and to get in contact with senior scholars and thought leaders.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER for ACERE 2021

Sign up as an academic reviewer for the 2021 ACERE conference!

A big thank you to everyone who submitted their scholarly work for consideration for the 2021 ACERE conference. The presenting authors for this year’s conference will soon submit their full papers for reviewing.  As in past years we would very much appreciate your assistance with this very important process and do hope that you will consider signing up as an ACERE reviewer.

• The reviewing period for full papers will begin on 1 December 2020
• All written reviews are to be completed and uploaded no later than 31 December 2020.
• Your comments will then be sent to the submitting author, and IMPORTANTLY your ratings will be used for the ACERE BEST PAPER AWARD process.

SIGN UP HERE TO REVIEW FOR ACERE 2021