CAUSEE is Australia’s largest nascent entrepreneurship research project.
NEW RELEASE: Business Creation Processes in Australia: What Start-Up Attempts Get Up and Running, and Why? – A Preliminary Assessment. The Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE) is the largest study of new firm formation that has ever been undertaken in Australia. CAUSEE follows the development of several samples of new and emerging firms over time. In this report we focus on the drivers of outcomes – in terms of reaching an operational stage vs. terminating the effort – of 493 randomly selected nascent firms whose founders have been comprehensively interviewed on two occasions, 12 months apart. We investigate the outcome effects of three groups of variables: Characteristics of the Venture; Resources Used in the Start-Up Process and Characteristics of the Start-Up Process Itself. View full report (PDF, 341KB)
Two preliminary reports have been released that provide an overview of wave 1 data:
Anatomy of New Business Activity in Australia: Some Early Observations from the CAUSEE Project
Early observations released May 2008 indicate Australia's start-up companies are going into business with their entrepreneurial eyes wide open and a technological and growth outlook that is at least on par with, if not better than, their US counterparts. Read more or view full report
Characteristics of High-Potential Start-Ups: Some Early Observations from the CAUSEE Project
While women are making their mark in everyday Australlia business, they are still under-represented in "high potential" firms, an entrepreneurial study undertaken at Queensland University of Technology has revealed. Read more or view full report
Alternatively, please contact:
Julienne Senyard on (07) 3138 7547 or
j.senyard@qut.edu.au for further information on the project.