The ACE Research Briefing Paper Series issues practitioner-oriented research reports from ACEs own research projects. The primary emphasis on interesting questions and results. That is, compared to purely scholarly reports there is less emphasis on reviewing related work, theory, methods description, complex analyses, and academic referencing. Although they are based on solid research data the reports are written in an accessible style and use relatively simple, easy-to-follow analyses, which are often presented in graphical form.

The most recent paper to be added to this series is an oldie but a goodie. ‘The Anatomy of New Business in Australia’ was first released in 2008 but is still generating interest if the number of downloads is anything to go by. This report was the first released from the CAUSEE project which is now just about to start a fifth wave of data collection with the support of Department of Industry and Innovation.
Read this and other breifing papers from ACE here.