Business Founders Wanted For Entrepreneurship Research

A Small Business Development Officer – and firm believer in understanding what works, and what doesn’t, when starting and developing new businesses in Australia – has passed on info about the Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence research project (CAUSEE) at Queensland University of Technology.

About The CAUSEE Project

This will be the largest study of business start-ups ever undertaken in Australia, and the only large-scale study to track particular ventures over time. It
should improve our understanding of independent entrepreneurship in Australia.

It will identify a large sample of approximately 800 emerging (but not yet operating) business start-ups, and will track them over four years. CAUSEE is focused on following start-up businesses from their inception.

It will also identify a sample of approximately 800 newly established young firms that have commenced trading.

In addition, high potential, high growth firms will also be sought as a separate sample.

Specifically, it is targeting firms that are high potential (an ability to grow and be successful quickly) in two categories:

• nascent ventures (essentially businesses in an active start-up phase but not yet trading)
• young firms up to four years old.

A Draw To Win $5000

Any businesses that qualify and complete the survey go into the draw to win $5000 and are given access to web resources that may assist in the growth of the business venture.

For further information
Visit www.causee.bus.qut.edu.au or contact Julienne Senyard, Brisbane Graduate School of Business, on 07 3138 7547 or j.senyard@qut.edu.au.

Anybody out there interested?