Message from Conference Organising Committee

The proud tradition of an annual, Australian-based, high quality entrepreneurship research meeting continues! What Professor Murray Gillin and Swinburne University pioneered will for the next five years be organized and further developed by the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE) at QUT Business School under the new name ACERE - the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange.

The 2012 meeting is particularly interesting - and expected to be somewhat larger in numbers - because it is organized jointly with the DIANA Conference (the world's leading conference on women's entrepreneurship). Participants with an interest in either event will have full access to all activities on the joint program.

The 2012 meeting will also be the first held in Western Australia, more precisely in lovely Fremantle, on the coast just 20 minutes from Perth.

We wish you a hearty welcome to a great conference experience at ACERE-DIANA in Fremantle in February 2012!

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About the Conference

We encourage the presentation of empirical and conceptual papers on any aspect of entrepreneurship understood as the creation of new economic activity and/or as the founding and management of independent ventures. Papers will be grouped into thematic sessions, one of which will be the DIANA track(s) on entrepreneurship and gender. Other likely tracks include but are not limited to new venture creation; corporate entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship; resourcing new ventures, and entrepreneurship theory.

Key Events 

• Welcome Reception;
• Three Day Technical Programme;
• Doctoral Consortium
• Conference Dinner; and
• Social Cocktail Function.

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Who Should Attend?

The Conference will be of interest to researchers and research students (from any country) who are interested in entrepreneurship and related topics such as innovation and small business management, as well as policy makers and other reflective practitioners who have a strong interest in research-based knowledge about entrepreneurship.

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Lead Organiser

ACERE Per Davidsson Director Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship QUT Business School Karen Taylor Centre Coordinator Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship QUT Business School

DIANA John Watson Winthrop Professor UWA Business School Alicia Castillo Holley Founder - CEO Wealthing® Group

ACERE Advisory Committee

Sanjay Bhowmick
Auckland University of Technology 

Martin Bliemel
University of New South Wales 

Alistair Campbell
University of South Australia 

Per Davidsson
Queensland University of Technology 

Evan Douglas
University of the Sunshine Coast 

Howard Frederick
Deakin University 

Noel Lindsay
Adelaide University 

Alex Maritz
Swinburne University 

Tim Mazzarol
University of Western Australia 

Morgan Miles
University of Tasmania 

Allan O’Connor
Adelaide University 

Martie-Louise Verreynne
University of Queensland 

John Watson
University of Western Australia

Diana Founding Members

Dr. Candida G. Brush
Babson College

Dr. Nancy M. Carter
Catalyst and visiting professor at Insead

Dr. Elizabeth J. Gatewood
Wake Forest University

Dr. Patricia G. Greene
Babson College

Dr. Myra M. Hart
Harvard Business School, retired.