Regional Entrepreneurship

Research Area leaders:

Professor Morgan Miles

Overview
Members
Projects
Current Students
PhD/DBA Topics

Overview

Regional Entrepreneurship focuses on understanding how entrepreneurship contributes to the development and economic viability of regional communities and their entrepreneurial ecosystems. The Faculty’s main interest pertains to the interrelationships of a region’s culture, social networks, institutions, infrastructure, and stocks of financial, built, natural and human capitals interact to create economic, environmental and social outcomes in regional communities. Also, the Faculty hopes to stimulate interest in how a broader perspective of entrepreneurship may be used to guide policy and practice in regional communities that enhance key dimensions of the region’s quality of life such as access to health care, education, and jobs.

The Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Science’s Regional Entrepreneurship Research Group aims to promote and support a diverse portfolio of research that contributes to regional community economic and social development. Topics include the policies and practices that support Ag Tech, Start-Ups, government support programs, and the effects on regionally based entrepreneurs and small businesses of policy changes in community services such as health care, disability care, and educational programs.

Members

Name	Title/Position	Email	Location
Katherine Attree	Lecturer	kattree@csu.edu.au	Bathurst
Larissa Bamberry	Senior Lecturer	lbamberry@csu.edu.au	Albury
Rui Bi	Senior Lecturer	rbi@csu.edu.au	Albury
Oliver Burmeister	Professor	oburmeister@csu.edu.au	Bathurst
Abhishek Dwivedi	Senior Lecturer	adwivedi@csu.edu.au	Albury
Mark Frost	Associate Professor	mfrost@csu.edu.au	Bathurst
Xiaodi Huang	Associate Professor	xhuang@csu.edu.au	Albury
Jodie Kleinschafer	Lecturer	jkleinschafer@csu.edu.au	Bathurst
Branka Krivokapic-Skoko	Associate Professor	bkrivokapic@csu.edu.au	Bathurst
Euan Lindsay	Professor	elindsay@csu.edu.au	Bathurst
Michael Mehmet	Senior Lecturer	mmehmet@csu.edu.au	Bathurst
Morgan Miles	Professor	mmiles@csu.edu.au	Bathurst
Mark Morrison	Professor	mmorrison@csu.edu.au	Bathurst
Alain Neher	Lecturer	aneher@csu.edu.au	Bathurst
Felicity Small	Senior Lecturer	fsmall@csu.edu.au	Bathurst
Alfred Wong	Senior Lecturer	awong@csu.edu.au	Bathurst

Projects

Current Projects

Project Name	Brief Description	Funding Body	Investigators
Evaluating the contribution of the Agritech Incubator Hub and Startup programs to creation of networks and development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem	This project will assess the effectiveness of the CSU Agritech Incubator Hub and associated startup programs in developing entrepreneurs, creating networks, and contributing to an entrepreneurial ecosystem. It will evaluate the impact of the program on participants and their development as entrepreneurs, explore how the Hub contributes to building strong relationships and networks between the University, entrepreneurs and the local community and it will assess the impact of the hub on growth and development of enterprises in the Agritech sector within the region.	Innovation NSW	Larissa Bamberry; Kim Thompson; Cathi McMullen, Kath Attree
Social entrepreneurship at non-profit organisations	Social entrepreneurship is considered as a process involving the innovative use and combination of resources to pursue opportunities to catalyse social change and/or address social. The project aims to uncover how non-profit organisations create social value by engaging in social innovation. A key aspect of the project is to understand social entrepreneurship orientation and its role in social value creation. Refer to: https://goo.gl/2YX7Dh	Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences	Abhishek Dwivedi, and Jay Weerawardena (UQ).

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Brief Description

Funding
Body

Investigators

Evaluating the contribution of the Agritech Incubator Hub and Startup programs to creation of networks and development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem

This project will assess the effectiveness of the CSU Agritech Incubator Hub and associated startup programs in developing entrepreneurs, creating networks, and contributing to an entrepreneurial ecosystem. It will evaluate the impact of the program on participants and their development as entrepreneurs, explore how the Hub contributes to building strong relationships and networks between the University, entrepreneurs and the local community and it will assess the impact of the hub on growth and development of enterprises in the Agritech sector within the region.

Innovation NSW

Larissa Bamberry; Kim Thompson; Cathi McMullen,
Kath Attree

Social entrepreneurship at non-profit organisations

Social entrepreneurship is considered as a process involving the innovative use and combination of resources to pursue opportunities to catalyse social change and/or address social.

The project aims to uncover how non-profit organisations create social value by engaging in social innovation. A key aspect of the project is to understand social entrepreneurship orientation and its role in social value creation.

Refer to: https://goo.gl/2YX7Dh

Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences

Abhishek Dwivedi, and Jay Weerawardena (UQ).

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Past Projects

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Current Students

Name	Award	Topic	Supervisor
Mariya Yesseleva-Pionka	PhD	Australian small and medium-sized enterprises and their access to external debt finance	Professor Adam Steen asteen@csu.edu.au 02 6338 4932
Neelam Goela	PhD	Accounting and financial decision-making in migrant small businesses in Australia	Assoc Professor Branka Krivokapic-Skoko bkrivokapic@csu.edu.au 02 6338 4428
Juergen Hirsch	DBA	Motivators and barriers to internal, social-media driven open innovation communities in financial services	Dr Herbert Fischer
John Edward Somerville Lawson	DBA	Exploring organisational effectiveness of not-for-profit organisations: outcomes accountability, governance and capacity measurement	Assoc Professor Branka Krivokapic-Skoko bkrivokapic@csu.edu.au 02 6338 4428

PhD/DBA Topics

The following opportunities exist in regional business development:

Supervisor	Topic
Professor Mark Morrison mmorrison@csu.edu.au 02 6338 4253	Entrepreneurship in regional Australia Indigenous business entrepreneurship Categorising types of entrepreneurs across regions, their practices and capabilities, and understanding how to support them.
Associate Professor Branka Krivokapic-Skoko bkrivokapic@csu.edu.au 02 6338 4428	Contribution of immigrants in regional Australia to entrepreneurship Indigenous business entrepreneurship.

Supervisor

Topic

Professor Mark Morrison
mmorrison@csu.edu.au
02 6338 4253

Entrepreneurship in regional Australia

Indigenous business entrepreneurship

Categorising types of entrepreneurs across regions, their practices and capabilities, and understanding how to support them.

Associate Professor Branka Krivokapic-Skoko
bkrivokapic@csu.edu.au
02 6338 4428

Contribution of immigrants in regional Australia to entrepreneurship

Indigenous business entrepreneurship.