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ACERE Submission Portal and Guidelines

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Extended Abstract Submission Deadline

Have you submitted an abstract already? Don’t worry if you haven’t yet – we give you some more time to prepare and finalize your work.

We have extended the abstract submission deadline until the 30th of September!

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT HERE

Call for Abstracts

We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission portal is now open! The abstract deadline is 15 September 2022. Click here to submit your abstract

Abstract submission guidelines

Abstracts must be submitted online, and uploaded in the following specific format:

  • All Abstracts must be submitted in English.
  • Abstracts must be an approximately 900 words.
  • The abstract should clearly state the:
    • Title
    • Principal Topic (at least 100 words and no more than 500 words)
    • Method (or “Key Propositions” for conceptual papers) (at least 100 words and no more than 300 words)
    • Results and Implications (at least 100 words and no more than 300 words)
  • Abstracts must be text only and there is no need to list the references even if in-text references are used (having a couple of key in-text references may be appropriate).
  • Pictures or graphs should not be submitted.
  • Contact information for all author/s; including name, affiliation and email addresses must be entered in the online submission form. The author(s) name and contact information should not appear anywhere in the abstract.

Registration and Fees

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Registration to ACERE 2023 is now open! Please register via the ACERE Registration link.

  • Early bird prices, if you register before the 15th of December
    • Student: AUD $350
    • Regular: AUD $790
  • If you register after the 15th of December
    • Student: AUD $450
    • Regular: AUD $890

Registration to ACERE 2023 includes access to Doctoral Consortium, PDWs, Entrepreneurship Education and Industry Forums.

You can register to the Entrepreneurship Education Forum only for $100 and to the Industry Forum only for $100.

Additional Participant Registration

Would you like to brig a +1 to our social events? They can register via the ACERE 2023 – Additional Participants Registration for Social Events link.

Entrepreneurship Educator’s Forum

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Educators Forum theme: ”Preparing Future Entrepreneurs”
#ACERE2023

When: Tuesday, 7 February 2023 – 9.00am-5.00pm
Where: The University of Queensland St Lucia campus – MOD West, building 11A – Room 130
Registration: Registration to the full ACERE 2023 includes access to Entrepreneurship Education. For only the Entrepreneurship Education Forum register here Registration and Fees. Select Delegate General and then select Educators Forum only. The cost is $100.

What is next for entrepreneurship education? How do we best prepare future entrepreneurs? If you are at the forefront and making a difference in this space the ACERE Educators’ Forum is for you. Facilitate your best workshop or give a short `show and share` TED-talk style presentation, learn from the experts developing cutting edge approaches and meet others passionate about entrepreneurship education.

Educators Forum Program

This one-day forum aims to be an interactive personal development platform for academics, pracademics and industry representatives at the intersection of entrepreneurship and education. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from champion educators at the forefront of supporting entrepreneurs and exchange innovative learning approaches and teaching tools. Participants will come away with a new suite of learning materials, inspiration to apply them and an expanded network of colleagues who share a passion for supporting future entrepreneurs.

To facilitate knowledge sharing, we have developed two focus areas for the day: 1) How high schools can contribute to preparing future entrepreneurs and 2) Supporting entrepreneurs to navigate the startup ecosystem. Participants will have the opportunity to take a deep dive in their area of interest or mix and mingle across the program. Morning sessions will showcase keynotes and panel discussions before breaking into sessions for show and share among all participants.

Keynote Speakers

Nicole Dyson

Nicole is a globally recognized expert and practitioner in project-based learning and youth entrepreneurship. She is the founder of Future Anything, an award-winning, curriculum-aligned entrepreneurship program for high school students, the founder of YouthX, Australia’s only startup accelerator program for school-aged entrepreneurs, and the founder of Catapult Cards, a design thinking tool for corporates and classrooms.

Baden U’Ren

Baden U’Ren is an internationally recognised entrepreneurship educator and innovation professional, a multiple company founder, and has a background in investment banking and private equity. He works in two main fields, corporate innovation and education, and is available for individual engagements.

Nick Shewring

Nick Shewring Founder & CEO of Wonderlife. He is a serial entrepreneur with entrepreneurship and innovation in his blood. His experience includes co-founding BizDojo, New Zealand’s leading chain of startup hubs, where he became a trusted mentor and advisor for many of New Zealand’s fastest-growing tech companies. Nick has also led mobile product innovation at Air New Zealand and rethinking innovation in the WaterTech space as GM for WaterStart. Nick has coached and mentored hundreds of startup teams and has a significant network in the local and international startup ecosystem. His specialty is bringing people together to achieve impressive things.

Aaron Birkby

I am passionate about empowering ambitious entrepreneurs to grow bigger, faster by providing investment and support as the co-founder of Tribe Global Ventures. My background includes over two decades building and supporting technology companies to grow global, as a founder, advisor, investor, and facilitator. My clients have included Google, YouTube, Novartis, the UK Government, Universities, super funds, investors and entrepreneurs.

Lance Newey

Title: Our Education Opportunity: A Generation of Developmental Entrepreneurs

Dr Lance Newey is a Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at UQ Business School. Lance specialises in the application of developmental psychology to assist leaders and entrepreneurs undertake transformative personal, organisational and/or community change. Lance pioneered the “Entrepreneurship for Community Wellbeing” program which works with Latin American communities to link their entrepreneurial initiatives to maximize community wellbeing. Beginning in Colombia, the success of the program has now spread to disadvantaged communities in Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico. More recently, Lance worked with the City of Anchorage Alaska to help them turn around from polarised gridlock towards regional renewal. These research programs have been funded by a small group of local Brisbane primary and secondary schools in a whole-of-education-system strategy aimed at the development of a new generation of systems leader capable of transformative change. The most recent output of this is the study program “An Introduction to Wellbeing Polarity Leadership for 21st century Parents and Young Emerging Leaders”, which will be shared in today’s Educator’s Forum.

Theme 1: How high schools can contribute to preparing future entrepreneurs?

Rationale: Entrepreneurial capability (mindset and action) is widely seen as key to how societies can develop sustainable solutions to their wellbeing issues. All levels of the education system can have a role to play in building this capability. Doing so can involve building two types of skills: 1) baseline, where the focus is on entrepreneurship at the level of individual projects and new businesses and 2) frontier, where entrepreneurial capability is applied to larger entities like cities, regions and countries. This High School Stream gives aspiring high schools a taste of both skillsets. The morning session showcases exemplar high schools and their entrepreneurship programs. The afternoon session introduces new developments in helping entrepreneurs to be systems thinkers and thereby create larger wellbeing impacts while also providing opportunities for educators to showcase their own innovations.

Who is this Session for? Interested in introducing entrepreneurship to your school but not sure how? Looking for exemplars? Want to hear about new developments in the application of entrepreneurship to creating better societies? This session is for you.

Aim: That teachers walk away with a sense of 1) the importance of entrepreneurship education for young emerging leaders to address societal issues and 2) practical how-to’s for curricular/extra-curricular initiatives.

Theme 2: Supporting entrepreneurs to navigate the startup ecosystem

Rationale: Coursework programs for entrepreneurship have grown tremendously in the past decade, including some universities embedding entrepreneurship fundamentals across all undergraduate programs. But, what about learning experiences beyond the classroom? How can students, alumni and members of the broader community who want to become more entrepreneurial but don’t want to commit to a full degree program? This stream covers support for entrepreneurship beyond degree programs, including MOOCs, microcredentials, private sector training, incubators, accelerators, and everything in-between (meetups, competitions, events series, etc.).

Who is this Session for?: This session is for people who offer support for entrepreneurs that is typically not for course credit. Budding entrepreneurs in these programs may be current university students, recent alumni or others further along their careers.

Aim: The aim of this session is twofold. On the one hand, participants will get a sense of the broader ecosystem that supports entrepreneurship. This will help explore where the entrepreneurs they support come from and can go to next as they seek support for their entrepreneurial pursuits. On the other hand, this session expects to share good practices around how to support entrepreneurs, such as mentorship, training, referrals, etc.

Call for Submissions for Afternoon TED-Style show and share and Interactive Practice Sessions

The afternoon sessions are an opportunity to showcase best practice and teaching innovations. If you would like to present in either the TED-style talk (10 min show & share) or run a mock classroom session (Interactive Practice Session) then please follow the following submission instructions:

10-minute TED-style Talk

10-minute TED Style Show and Share. Please provide a brief overview of your teaching innovation. Max 400 words. Please use the following headings.

  • Describe the innovation & motivation behind it
  • Learning outcomes
  • How to implement it
  • Results

Please submit your proposal by 5pm, 15th of December. To apply, please fill in the ACERE Educators Forum Submission Form.

30-minute Interactive Session

In this session you would run a mock class. Please provide an overview of the lesson plan. Max 600 words. Please use the following headings:

  • Describe the innovation & motivation behind it.
  • Learning outcomes
  • How to implement it (lesson plan)
  • Results

Please submit your proposal by 5pm, 15th of December. To apply, please fill in the ACERE Educators Forum Submission Form.

Educators Forum Conveners

  • Lance Newey, The University of Queensland
  • Anna Jenkins, The University of Queensland
  • Martin Bliemel, University Technology Sydney
  • Julienne Senyard, Griffith University

Doctoral Consortium

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ACERE Doctoral Consortium (DC)

Are you pursuing a PhD on an entrepreneurship-related topic?
Then this is for you!

When: Monday, 6 February 2023 – 9am-5pm including lunch, morning tea and afternoon, followed by an evening social event.
Where: The University of Queensland St Lucia campus – Building 14 – Room 217 and online (Zoom link TBC)

The 2023 ACERE Doctoral Consortium will once again provide a forum for PhD students to learn and develop as scholars. Attendees will have the opportunity to receive developmental feedback from leading scholars on their research, learn about how to develop a publication strategy and broader pathways for impact from early on in their PhDs projects, and gain advise on how best to prepare for the job market. The Consortium will be hosted at the University of Queensland in Brisbane as well as being available for participants online.

Aims

  • To provide expert advice on research and challenges in the PhD process
  • To gain a deeper understanding about how to develop a publication strategy and build impact pathways from early in the PhD project
  • To support entrepreneurship-related PhD students to further develop their research strategies and portfolio, with a balanced emphasis on publication outputs and societal impact
  • To facilitate and promote networking with others in their field of research from different institutions
  • To meet leading International and Australian Entrepreneurship researchers in an informal setting and learn about where the field has come from and where it’s going
  • To share first-hand experience of the review process, what to expect, and how to manage it
  • To gain deeper insights into the job market, with tips and tricks for finishing, finding a job and thriving through the PhD process

Format

The program provides the opportunity to receive advice on your research and any specific challenges you face in an informal discussion setting with leading scholars in the field. There will be a combination of small group discussions, Q&As, panels, and seminars.

Confirmed Participating Faculty

  • Anna-Katharina Lenz, Miami University
  • Dean Shepherd, University of Notre Dame
  • Greg Fisher, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
  • Jan-Michael Ross, Imperial College London
  • Jeff McMullen, Kelly School of Business, Indiana University
  • Maw Der Foo, Nanyang Technical University
  • Moren Lévesque, York University
  • Per Davidsson, Queensland University of Technology and Jönköping University
  • Sam MacAulay, University of Queensland
  • Sherry Thatcher, University of Tennessee
  • Stephen Zhang, University of Adelaide

Co-Chairs

  • Sam MacAulay, The University of Queensland
  • Stephen Zhang, The University of Adelaide
  • Anna-Katharina Lenz, Farmer Business School, Miami University

Preparation Requirements

Prior to the conference you will need to submit a CV that contains a paragraph length description of your studies and their status (i.e., writing, data analysis, data collection, working paper; conference paper, Revise and Resubmit etc.) and a 2-slide PowerPoint presentation on your research program. You will actively participate in the discussion of the paper. More details will be provided once your participation is confirmed.

We also encourage all participants to sign-up as reviewers of abstracts for the conference. This is a great opportunity to give back to field and get an insight into the review process.

Application Process

To apply for the consortium, please fill in the ACERE Doctoral Consortium Submission Form. Applications close on the 15th of December. We will ask you to provide and upload the following:

  • Name
  • Institution, Faculty, and Department/Discipline
  • a CV that contains any working papers, conference papers, or publications and their status (i.e., writing, data analysis, data collection, Revise & Resubmit, Rejection, etc.), and
  • a 2-slide PowerPoint presentation on your research program.

Industry Forum

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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.

ACERE 2022 – First Call For Abstracts

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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

Registration now open

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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

Do you want to know about the latest developments and ongoing research in your field?

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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

Welcome to ACERE 2021!

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ACERE 2021 (Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange), which in this year is co-organized by QUT and Bond University, will be held 9 to 12 February 2021.

Please note that due to COVID-19 restrictions, ACERE 2021 will be different than the previous ones. The Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research together with the ACERE Academic Committee, comprised of leading entrepreneurship scholars from Australia and the greater region, has worked hard on a conference format that guarantees the high academic quality of the conference and enables a high level of academic exchange in an effective way. 

The 2021 conference will keep the typical ACERE structure (Doctoral Consortium, Educators Forum, Interactive Paper Presentations, Paper Development Workshops, 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, like in every ACERE. 

Importantly, we also plan for a few activities to be held offline (physical location in Brisbane and Gold Coast in collaboration with Bond University) – 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 that provide the “authentic” ACERE feeling).

The conference will be accessible through our conference APP and website. In order to make sure of the smooth running of the conference program, all authors who have submitted a paper by 10 December will be required to submit a pre-recorded 20-minute video presentation by 31 December 2020. All details about the new conference format and how to register will be made available to each author as the program is developed.   All presenting authors are expected to be registered by 10 January 2020 for their paper to be included in the program. 

At this stage we expect the online registration fee to be: General AUD 100, Student AUD 50

We hope to see you virtually or physically at ACERE 2021!

Stay safe and sincerely,

Martin Obschonka

ACERE 2021 Abstracts due 17 August 2020

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While we acknowledge the level of uncertainty that many entrepreneurship researchers around the world are facing these days we would appreciate abstract submissions being uploaded by 17 August 2020. After this date the ACERE academic committee will meet and be better placed to assess what form of delivery the conference might take. So please join us and contribute to this great community spirit that makes entrepreneurship research and the ACERE conference so special.

As mentioned in our initial call, we cannot provide final details about the delivery of the conference, but we are prepared for various scenarios, including physical location, online, or even both at the same time that will allow you to participate in various forms; zoom in for papers sessions, observe and participate in workshops, submit video recordings of your sessions. 
 
We are of course considering the impact that the form of delivery might have on the time of scheduling the sessions within the conference program, as well as the cost of registration for individual delegates. 

The abstract submission portal is now open!  
Please be sure to read the Abstract Submission Guidelines HERE


Please note: 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 in September 2020 along with additional information on what form the conference may take and how you might deliver your presentation and interact with conference participants.  At this stage full papers will be due on or before 6 November 2020 (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)