Associate Professor Martin Bliemel is the Director, Research at the new TD School (ex Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Martin’s research interests include entrepreneurial ecosystems, networks, acceleration, education, and research commercialization. His research has been published in several prestigious journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Technovation, Education+Training, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, and the Entrepreneurship Research Journal. Martin is a recipient of the nationally competitive Office of Learning and Teaching Citation for his excellence and leadership in teaching. The award is supported by multiple publications and presentations about his curriculum design, and by the positive feedback from students and industry.
Common Ground Research Networks eBooks, Nov 1, 2018
This volume identifies and documents pedagogical and practice-based visual approaches to scaffold... more This volume identifies and documents pedagogical and practice-based visual approaches to scaffolding and developing capacity for cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship. This first chapter introduces and contextualises the key themes of this book, outlining the value in supporting acquisition of cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship skills in students and why visual tools are particularly useful in doing this. Chapter authors, and editors of this book, have chosen to divide the content of the book into four sections : i) visual tools and artefacts for Cross-disciplinary Collaboration; (ii) visual tools and artefacts for Innovation; (iii) visual tools and artefacts for Entrepreneurship; and (iv) Integrated approaches using visual tools and artefacts. The main chapters take a social, cultural and historical look at the evolution of visual tools, followed by a final chapter which takes a look into future possibilities
Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) have been characterised by abstract or aggregated elements that ... more Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) have been characterised by abstract or aggregated elements that interact to produce entrepreneurial outcomes. This aggregation is convenient because studying individual actors, interactions and outcomes for such complex systems is empirically difficult. However, the aggregation simultaneously limits our ability to study how EEs generate entrepreneurial outcomes as a consequence of the actions and interactions of actors who represent these aggregated elements. To work around the empirical challenge of surveying entire ecosystems or even a representative set of actors in an ecosystem, this study focusses on a temporally and spatially limited ecosystem. This study posits that accelerators are EEs, albeit entrepreneurial micro-ecosystems, which are analogous to the petri dish version of EEs. This study then adopts an EE lens and uses a mixed-methods approach to (1) explore the social and temporal boundaries of EEs, (2) illustrate the generative interacti...
Relationships and networks are important to how entrepreneurs create value. However, many aspects... more Relationships and networks are important to how entrepreneurs create value. However, many aspects about relationships and networks remain poorly understood because their characteristics are often reduced to one-dimensional variables or dichotomous measures. This paper unpacks the concept of multiplexity and proposes a hierarchy of four different levels (
Advances in Research, Theory and Practice in Work-Integrated Learning, 2021
The changing and dynamic nature of contemporary work is contributing to a compelling need for inn... more The changing and dynamic nature of contemporary work is contributing to a compelling need for innovation and enterprise capabilities within organisations. Both small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and larger organisations are increasingly looking for evidence of these enterprise capabilities in graduates. In response Australian universities are endeavouring to embed entrepreneurial experiences in the curriculum with entrepreneurial WIL emerging as a pedagogical approach for learners to develop these enterprise capabilities. Through entrepreneurial WIL experiences, such as innovation incubators, bootcamps and interdisciplinary industry/community projects, learners engage with industry and community partners and apply their developing enterprise capabilities to identifying opportunities and creating value. This chapter outlines four entrepreneurial WIL illustrations of practice which were re-designed with support from the multi-institutional Edge project. Drawing on these illustrations and current research, the chapter advances key considerations for WIL curriculum, seeking to develop entrepreneurial experiences with a focus on learners’ enterprise capabilities development
This study presents our preliminary analysis of the emergence of seed accelerators in Australia. ... more This study presents our preliminary analysis of the emergence of seed accelerators in Australia. We review the history of this organizational form in context of over 40 years of policy debate about venture capital and innovation. We also provide a critical review of whether accelerators are an evolutionary extension of business incubators, or a new form of organization, more in line with angel investing.
Studies of entrepreneurial networks have largely overlooked configurational research, which is co... more Studies of entrepreneurial networks have largely overlooked configurational research, which is concerned with organizational diversity. We suggest that this is due to conceptual and methodological constraints that restrict studies to concentrate on one or other of the two dominant network perspectives - structural and flow. Consequently, we know relatively little about how both these network perspectives combine to create distinct configurations. In response, we introduce a conceptual model and the Q-analysis method and use these to develop a typology of four network configurations. We then present arguments concerning the effective network goals and network capabilities particular to each configuration.
Common Ground Research Networks eBooks, Nov 1, 2018
This volume identifies and documents pedagogical and practice-based visual approaches to scaffold... more This volume identifies and documents pedagogical and practice-based visual approaches to scaffolding and developing capacity for cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship. This first chapter introduces and contextualises the key themes of this book, outlining the value in supporting acquisition of cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship skills in students and why visual tools are particularly useful in doing this. Chapter authors, and editors of this book, have chosen to divide the content of the book into four sections : i) visual tools and artefacts for Cross-disciplinary Collaboration; (ii) visual tools and artefacts for Innovation; (iii) visual tools and artefacts for Entrepreneurship; and (iv) Integrated approaches using visual tools and artefacts. The main chapters take a social, cultural and historical look at the evolution of visual tools, followed by a final chapter which takes a look into future possibilities
Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) have been characterised by abstract or aggregated elements that ... more Entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs) have been characterised by abstract or aggregated elements that interact to produce entrepreneurial outcomes. This aggregation is convenient because studying individual actors, interactions and outcomes for such complex systems is empirically difficult. However, the aggregation simultaneously limits our ability to study how EEs generate entrepreneurial outcomes as a consequence of the actions and interactions of actors who represent these aggregated elements. To work around the empirical challenge of surveying entire ecosystems or even a representative set of actors in an ecosystem, this study focusses on a temporally and spatially limited ecosystem. This study posits that accelerators are EEs, albeit entrepreneurial micro-ecosystems, which are analogous to the petri dish version of EEs. This study then adopts an EE lens and uses a mixed-methods approach to (1) explore the social and temporal boundaries of EEs, (2) illustrate the generative interacti...
Relationships and networks are important to how entrepreneurs create value. However, many aspects... more Relationships and networks are important to how entrepreneurs create value. However, many aspects about relationships and networks remain poorly understood because their characteristics are often reduced to one-dimensional variables or dichotomous measures. This paper unpacks the concept of multiplexity and proposes a hierarchy of four different levels (
Advances in Research, Theory and Practice in Work-Integrated Learning, 2021
The changing and dynamic nature of contemporary work is contributing to a compelling need for inn... more The changing and dynamic nature of contemporary work is contributing to a compelling need for innovation and enterprise capabilities within organisations. Both small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and larger organisations are increasingly looking for evidence of these enterprise capabilities in graduates. In response Australian universities are endeavouring to embed entrepreneurial experiences in the curriculum with entrepreneurial WIL emerging as a pedagogical approach for learners to develop these enterprise capabilities. Through entrepreneurial WIL experiences, such as innovation incubators, bootcamps and interdisciplinary industry/community projects, learners engage with industry and community partners and apply their developing enterprise capabilities to identifying opportunities and creating value. This chapter outlines four entrepreneurial WIL illustrations of practice which were re-designed with support from the multi-institutional Edge project. Drawing on these illustrations and current research, the chapter advances key considerations for WIL curriculum, seeking to develop entrepreneurial experiences with a focus on learners’ enterprise capabilities development
This study presents our preliminary analysis of the emergence of seed accelerators in Australia. ... more This study presents our preliminary analysis of the emergence of seed accelerators in Australia. We review the history of this organizational form in context of over 40 years of policy debate about venture capital and innovation. We also provide a critical review of whether accelerators are an evolutionary extension of business incubators, or a new form of organization, more in line with angel investing.
Studies of entrepreneurial networks have largely overlooked configurational research, which is co... more Studies of entrepreneurial networks have largely overlooked configurational research, which is concerned with organizational diversity. We suggest that this is due to conceptual and methodological constraints that restrict studies to concentrate on one or other of the two dominant network perspectives - structural and flow. Consequently, we know relatively little about how both these network perspectives combine to create distinct configurations. In response, we introduce a conceptual model and the Q-analysis method and use these to develop a typology of four network configurations. We then present arguments concerning the effective network goals and network capabilities particular to each configuration.
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