Useful Links
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is Australia’s national statistical agency, providing trusted official statistics on a wide range of economic, social, population and environmental matters.
- CORE Innovation HubCORE Innovation Hub is Australia’s first co-working, collaboration and innovation hub focused on the resources and energy sector. CORE delivers an environment that drives collaboration, and open innovation and new enterprise to help address industry’s evolving challenges.
- Thinkers 50
Identifying, ranking, and sharing extraordinary management and business thinking. - CEDA (Committee for Economic Development of Australia)
CEDA is an independent, membership-based think tank. - Fremantle Innovators GuildA co-working space supporting the local community of North Fremantle.
- ECU Women in Business ECU Women in Business aims to create a supportive community at ECU. Our key objective is to create and promote opportunities for female students in professional industries, and to provide a supportive network at Edith Cowan University for all students.
- The Corporate Rebels
Joost and Pim quit their frustrating, corporate jobs and set out to travel the world and visit the most inspiring organizations. - Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (EIX)Useful, research-based insights for entrepreneurs - cases, exercises, research translations, video interviews...
- Western Australia. Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and InnovationLeads Western Australia's economic development, international trade and investment, and tourism, and promote the defence, international education, science and innovation sectors.
- New Industries Fund - Innovation hubs (Department of Jobs, Tourism, Science and Innovation)- WA AustCyber Innovation Hub
- WA Data Science Innovation Hub
- MTPConnect WA Life Sciences Innovation Hub - WA Industry LinkA Western Australian Government initiative to provide local businesses, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, with more opportunity to compete for local supply contracts.
- Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) - Chart Pack The Reserve Bank of Australia is Australia's central bank. Find Australian exchange rates, interest rates, credit rates, prices and inflation rate data.
- WorkSafe WorkSafe is a division of the WA Department of Commerce and its role is the regulation of workplace safety and health in accordance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1984. Find statistics on work accidents in Australia in various industries.
- Techstreet - Standards Australia Online This link opens in a new windowAustralian standards covering: Aerospace, Automotive, Construction, Energy, Engineering, Government, Manufacturing, Medical devices, Pharmaceuticals, Safety.
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Please download this tip sheet on how to access standards on Techstreet
Click here to register for Techstreet. See the database for the corporate key - Engineering Workbench This link opens in a new windowInternational standards: ISO, ASTM, BSI, and ASHRAE.
LinkedIn Learning - skills training (videos)
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TEDTalks
- TEDTalks - Ideas about Entrepreneurship
A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Entrepreneurship.
eBooks / Books
Entrepreneurship: Successfully launching new ventures (6th ed.)
Barringer, B., & Ireland, R. (2019) [ebook]
Handbook of East Asian entrepreneurship
Yu, F., & Yan, H. (Eds.) (2015) [ebook]
Entrepreneurship and innovations in e-business: An integrative perspective
Zhao, F. (2006) [print]
Call Number: 658.872 ENT
Databases - Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Search directly in the databases listed below to locate additional peer-reviewed journal articles and data for your assignments:
- Gartner This link opens in a new window
Global research and advisory company delivering strategic advice and best practices. - Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Ultimate provides access to over 3,500 full-text journals (including Forbes and Harvard Business Review (HBR)).
- Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
Covers Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, Management, Education, Engineering, Health & Social Care, Library Studies, Marketing, Sociology, Tourism & Hospitality, and Transport. - Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new window
Contains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Profiles, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots. - Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources, including articles from Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. - ScienceDirect Journals & Books This link opens in a new window
A Web database for scientific research that contains the full text of more than 2,500 scholarly journals including over 250 fully Open Access publications. Covers Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. - Scopus This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, and provides both author and journal metrics (performance analytics) of the literature indexed in the database. - SAGE Catalyst This link opens in a new windowA collaborative teaching and learning tool covering business & management, communication & media studies, counselling, cultural studies, economics, education, geography, earth & environmental science, nursing, psychology, public health, research methods & evaluation, social work, sociology and more.
- National Library of Australia (NLA) - eResourcesAccess to free indexes, databases, and guides to different areas of law.
Databases - Industry, Markets and Company Information
Use the following databases to find country-specific industry reports and customisable statistical data reports:
- IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Australian and global industry analysis for a range of industries, services and products, containing Industry Market Research, Industry Risk Ratings and Company Research.
Watch online tutorials: https://help-ibisworld-com.ezproxy.ecu.edu.au/en/ - MarketLine This link opens in a new window
Provides data and up-to-date information on companies, industries and countries across the world.
Click here for the MarketLine user guide and video tutorials. - SAGE Business Cases This link opens in a new window
Access more than 4,200 authoritative cases from over 100 countries covering entrepreneurship, accounting, healthcare management, leadership, social enterprise, and more. - DatAnalysis This link opens in a new windowContains company data and up to date financial data for all ASX (Australian Securities Exchange) listed companies, updated daily from relevant ASX announcements. Search by using the ASX code or all or part of the company name.
Watch the DatAnalysis tutorial. - WARC This link opens in a new window
Offers advertising best practice, evidence and insights from the world's leading brands. WARC also publishes leading journals including Admap, Market Leader, the Journal of Advertising Research and the International Journal of Market Research.
Watch this quick overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB5mNDFVIvw - Gartner This link opens in a new windowGlobal research and advisory company delivering strategic advice and best practices.
- Business Market Research Collection This link opens in a new windowContains company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research from three sources, including Hoover's Company Records, OxResearch from Oxford Analystica, and Snapshots.
- World Development Indicators (WDI) This link opens in a new windowThe primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.
- WorldData.AI This link opens in a new windowCurated data from global sources. Sign up using your ECU email to access, search and download data from over 3.3 billion datasets.
- World Bank - Data CatalogIncludes the following & many more:
* World Development Indicators & Africa Development Indicators
* Global Development Finance
* Research Datasets and Analytical Tools - Regional Economic Reports (IMF)These reports discuss recent economic developments and prospects for countries in various regions, as well as regional policy developments and challenges, and provide country-specific data and analysis.
- SNIPER (Searchable Networked Intellectual Property Electronic Resource) This link opens in a new windowProduced by the Library at IP Australia. Contains journal articles, conference papers, and other documents about issues in intellectual property. It provides a knowledge base to support policy, awareness and research in intellectual property matters.
Academic Journals - Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Harvard Business ReviewOnline access (via EBSCO Business Source Ultimate)
Identify additional peer-reviewed journals by subject area using Scimago Journal Rankings - articles from these journals will be credible assignment resources: