What is Entrepreneurial Management?

Entrepreneurial management can be defined as the ability to lead change within a variety of organisational environments using enterprising behaviour to achieve enhanced outcomes for that organisation and its key stakeholders.

What is Innovation?

The focus for innovation in business should be on finding ways to enhance competitiveness by converting ideas, processes, technologies and alliances into commercially valuable outcomes.
 
 

The misunderstood world of the co-operative enterprise

2012 is the United Nation's International Year of the Co-operative. This is a once in a 25 year opportunity to acknowledge these important but often misunderstood businesses. What is a co-operative or mutual business and why are they misunderstood? 

Small Business finally has a national profile, but will it have the power?

 
The announced appointment of a federal Small Business Commissioner is welcome news, but will the position be given sufficient powers to allow them to do the job? If they model this role on the South Australian Small Business Commissioner they may have a better model, or risk it becomin a toothless tider. 

 

An open letter to Brendon O'Connor - how to 'get' small business

In this open letter to the newly appointed federal Minister for Small Business, Brendon O'Connor we provide some advice as to what he should be focusing on in his first year. They include recognising the importance of small business to the national economy, not viewing small business as a sector, not focusing on 'red tape' as the main concern, helping SMEs bridge the digital divide and investing in education, training and research to help shape future policy. Finally, we recommend a small business impact assessment before the implementation of industry policies. 
 
 

Enterprise Society

This is a regular blog by Professor Tim Mazzarol published in "The Conversation" online newspaper that deals with issues relating to the role of entrepreneurship, innovation and small business in our society. 

A political shell game for small business?

The 2012 federal budget offers to return a modest surplus of $1.5 billion over the financial year 2012-2013, with the hope of further surplus budgets in the following years. In normal circumstances, this budget would not be particularly remarkable. However, in the context of a hung parliament and with the federal government’s popularity with voters at low ebb, this budget is of critical significance. Despite these positives, the overall impression one gets of this budget is that it is a political shell game. The federal government needs a political fix to give it a fighting chance at the forthcoming elections in 2013.

Fonterra’s new frontier: will it still be a cooperative under its new share-trade scheme?

The future of Fonterra, the largest dairy co-operative in the world and New Zealand's largest business, took an interesting turn on Monday 25 June 2012 when its members voted in favour of the Trading Among Farmer's (TAF) scheme. This decouples share ownership from patronage within the co-op and according to some it may risk the eventual demutualisation of the co-op.

Some big ideas for manufacturing, but will they happen?

The Prime Minister's Manufacturing Task Force report from the non-government members makes 41 wide-ranging recommendations.  While many good ideas are contained in the report there are also some politically contentious issues. Whether the Prime Minister will adopt the advice of this expert group or "cherry pick" what she wants from it, only time will tell. However, the decisions taken will decide the fate of many of Australia's manufacturers and the future shape of the Australian economy. 

Welcome to CEMI

Welcome to the Centre for Entrepreneurial Management and Innovation (CEMI). We are a virtual centre dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurship and innovation within industry and the wider community. Through our website we aim to share ideas, publish research, build networks and educate.

CEMI aims to be a community of practice for those within academic and policy development roles who recognise the critical importance of entrepreneurship and innovation to the global economy. CEMI is also designed to be a community of practice for the entrepreneur and innovator. It is for the owner-managers of small businesses, the managers of large firms, and those social entrepreneurs seeking to make a difference in their communities.

Research

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Courses

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Blogs

Indigenous Entrepreneurship – The Best Way to Bridge the Social Divide?
The future of rural enterprises in the global food chain
The Global Market for Higher Education a Decade On
Let's stop wasting peoples' time: Entrepreneurship as a new form of management
The value of management research to managers

CEMI Executive Summaries

The CEMI Executive Summary Series provides short reviews of academic research papers and other publications in order to provide an overview of the key findings and the implications of this research for managers. 

Publications

A collection of publications from CEMI that can be searched via our bibliographic database. Many titles can be downloaded in full from this site.

Useful Stuff

Marketing Metrics Quiz

Marketing Metrics Quiz

Type: 
Diagnostics/Benchmarks
Media: 
CEMI_Diagnostics_Marketing_Metrics_Quiz.pdf
Description of content: 

This "Marketing Metrics Quick Quiz" examines your current business generation management and allows you to think about gaps in your marketing and customer creation process. The template allows you to prepare a preliminary plan of action for the creation of a business generating system.

 
Innovation Research & Policy Network (IRPN)

Innovation Research & Policy Network (IRPN)

Type: 
Links
Link: 
Innovation Research & Policy Network (IRPN)
Description of content: 

The Innovation Research & Policy Network (IRPN) within the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an access point for the distribution of many research papers that cover topics relating to innovation and technological change. It contains many open access journals. 
Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN)

Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN)

Type: 
Links
Link: 
EPRN Network on SSRN
Description of content: 

The Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network (ERPN) within the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) offers a range of publications. Many are open access working papers and offer leading-edge research that is not yet published in major journals. It is sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Quick Quiz of your Marketing Practice

Quick Quiz of your Marketing Practice

Type: 
Diagnostics/Benchmarks
Media: 
CEMI_Diagnostics_Marketing_Quiz.pdf
Description of content: 

This is a Quick Quiz of your current marketing practice. Download the form as an interactive PDF document and complete the questions. You can then make notes as to what your future action should be to improve your marketing practices. When you are done you can print out the document.

 
Business Plan for an Established Business

Business Plan for an Established Business

Type: 
Templates
Media: 
Business Plan for an Established Business.doc
Description of content: 

This business plan template has been designed for an established business.

 

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