The Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, QUT is conducting the Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence research project, or CAUSEE. It is Australia’s largest nascent entrepreneurship research project.
The project provides an exciting opportunity to fundamentally improve our understanding of independent entrepreneurship in Australia. It is the largest study of business start-ups ever undertaken in Australia and the only large-scale study to track particular ventures over time.
CAUSEE aims to uncover the factors that initiate, hinder and facilitate the process of emergence of new economic activities and organisations. Unlike much previous entrepreneurship research, the CAUSEE project will not put a singular focus on the ‘entrepreneur(s)’.
Assessing key characteristics of the venture idea, such as the degree and type of novelty the emerging venture has compared to what is already in the market, are an important part of the research. Also important is looking at the business and the outcomes it may achieve and the relationship between characteristics of the venture idea and achieved outcomes. It may be suspected, for example, that more innovative ventures are over-represented among failures as well as among the highest performers.
The study has already revealed a number of interesting findings which can be found at http://www.bus.qut.edu.au/research/ace/causee/
