9 February 2023 | Brisbane
Iulia Stroila of Science-to-Business Marketing Research Center (S2BMRC), FH Münster University of Applied Sciences and her co-authors, Prof. Paul Steffens and Prof. Carolin Plewa, The University of Adelaide, received the Best Qualitative Paper Award at the ACERE 2023 conference for their research on entrepreneurial ecosystems entitled "Configurations of Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Well-Being".
By drawing on ecosystem well-being from ecology and 51 interviews with successful players in Amsterdam, Berlin, Medellín, São Paulo, Silicon Valley, Stockholm, and Tel Aviv, the authors examined configurations of well-being dimensions, diversity, and quality resilience, opportunity, and choice provision-within entrepreneurial ecosystems.
ACERE stands for Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange. This year, the University of Queensland hosted the conference in Brisbane in collaboration with the Queensland University of Technology. The ACERE Best Paper Award is awarded annually to researchers for the most outstanding academic research contributing to the discussion of entrepreneurship from theoretical, methodological, or empirical perspectives. The ACERE2023 paper awards had three categories this year: qualitative, quantitative, and best overall paper awards.
At ACERE 2023, Iulia had the opportunity to meet and network with fellow scholars, share research findings, and learn about the latest developments in the entrepreneurship field.
It was a great finish for Iulia's three months research stay at the University of Adelaide. In her research, Iulia focuses on the well-being of entrepreneurial ecosystems: the ability of ecosystems to support the quality, diversity, resilience, and opportunity and choice provision for entrepreneurs and their ventures. Accordingly, she investigates how ecosystems worldwide can contribute more to sustainable and inclusive economic growth.