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Hunter Valley

Evaluation

Encouraging Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment Initiative 2016–2019 evaluation report


This evaluation reviewed the Australian Government's Encouraging Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment Initiative. It found the initiative was positively perceived, addressing a gap and providing useful support to young clients seeking to start a business, but there was low awareness of some components and opportunities for improvement. Participants continued to face multiple barriers to starting a business.
Conference paper

Bureaucracy, red tape and my rules: event regulation in the NSW Hunter Valley


Innovative uses of land, air and water for staging events are increasingly encouraged by various bodies at all levels of government to support cities and urban development policies. In some cities, the outcome is a continual stream of events, some highly mobile, with novel locations and with times and duration designed to maximise outcomes. But...
Conference paper

The role of knowledge in large Australian city – regions: a traditional industry in Greater Western Sydney and the Hunter Region


This paper explores the effects of territorial systems on the knowledge and innovation processes of industries traditionally regarded as low-knowledge intensive, in this case the steel industry.
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