Academic Entrepreneurship in Australian Universities. ITRHs & ITTCs are a major funding sources to mentor future graduates that drive growth and innovation in today’s economy. However, changes based on evidence based research are needed to ensure that they are adapted to the task of creating entrepreneurial thinking, stimulating business creation and exploiting ideas in society. Multiple-case studies are generally regarded as more robust than single-case studies, providing the observation and an ....Academic Entrepreneurship in Australian Universities. ITRHs & ITTCs are a major funding sources to mentor future graduates that drive growth and innovation in today’s economy. However, changes based on evidence based research are needed to ensure that they are adapted to the task of creating entrepreneurial thinking, stimulating business creation and exploiting ideas in society. Multiple-case studies are generally regarded as more robust than single-case studies, providing the observation and analysis of a phenomenon in several settings. In order to satisfy the requirements of the replication strategy we analyze all funded ITRHs & ITTCs from 2012 to 2024.
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Turning crises into opportunities: Learning from high growth businesses. Being able to adapt and respond to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic or bushfires is important for Australia's economic development. This project investigates how crises can be turned into opportunities. It analyses the strategic crises responses of business ventures that managed to defy the odds and to achieve high growth because of crises. The outcomes include an improved understanding of the opportunities crises prese ....Turning crises into opportunities: Learning from high growth businesses. Being able to adapt and respond to crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic or bushfires is important for Australia's economic development. This project investigates how crises can be turned into opportunities. It analyses the strategic crises responses of business ventures that managed to defy the odds and to achieve high growth because of crises. The outcomes include an improved understanding of the opportunities crises present; and actionable, empirically grounded insights into successful crises responses. As such, the project will make significant contributions to core areas of entrepreneurship and management research. It will also help policymakers and entrepreneurs to improve economic resilience and to foster sustainable economic growth.Read moreRead less
Pursuing the right opportunities: the actor-opportunity nexus and new venture performance. This project's purpose is to explain how new business ventures can be made more successful. Based on a longitudinal study of new business ventures in Australia's mining industry, the research will develop a model that captures how characteristics of entrepreneurs, opportunities and the fit between them influence entrepreneurial actions and success.
High-impact entrepreneurship: routine formation, process and outcomes. This project aims to gain in-depth knowledge of how entrepreneurs create high impact ventures through the adoption of a practice-based approach. The project intends to uncover how routines are formed and developed to establish and sustain the creation of high-impact new ventures. The project expects to make significant contributions to core areas of management and entrepreneurship research, while providing beneficial insights ....High-impact entrepreneurship: routine formation, process and outcomes. This project aims to gain in-depth knowledge of how entrepreneurs create high impact ventures through the adoption of a practice-based approach. The project intends to uncover how routines are formed and developed to establish and sustain the creation of high-impact new ventures. The project expects to make significant contributions to core areas of management and entrepreneurship research, while providing beneficial insights on the impact of government support programs for facilitating high-impact entrepreneurship to ensure policy is effectively designed to foster the success of high-impact new ventures. An in-depth understanding of high-impact entrepreneurship will also help foster innovation-led growth in Australia’s economic development.Read moreRead less