Doctoral Dissertation Research: An Investigation of the Ecology of Business Start-Up Survival

博士论文研究:初创企业生存生态学调查

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    0402150
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 1.2万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    美国
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
  • 财政年份:
    2004
  • 资助国家:
    美国
  • 起止时间:
    2004-03-01 至 2006-02-28
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

Business start-ups are widely recognized as important sources of innovation and long-run regional growth. Most start-ups fail within the first few years of existence, however, and failure rates vary considerably across industries. To explain such variation, recent studies have identified barriers to start-up survival, including an industry's minimum efficient scale of production and uncertainty associated with emerging markets for new products. The purpose of this Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement project is to investigate whether the local economic environment in which a new firm operates influences the likelihood of its survival. Specifically, this study tests whether proximity to three key sources of Marshallian spatial externalities (labor pools, input suppliers, and knowledge spillovers) influences survival rates for start-up establishments in several manufacturing and advanced producer services sectors. Spatial externalities are likely sources of geographic variation in survival for two main reasons. First, spatial externalities enable smaller firms to reap external benefits of scale to offset internal scale disadvantages. Second, they help ensure successful innovation through the beneficial effects of knowledge spillovers. The study will use several complimentary analytical methods, including exploratory spatial analytical techniques, life-table analysis, and event-duration regression models. A new spatial modeling technique (Geographically Weighted Regression) will be used to test whether the relationship between externalities and survival is a spatially non-stationary process, as suggested by studies of industrial districts emphasizing the importance of the social and cultural context in strengthening localization forces. Central to the project is a newly developed longitudinal dataset from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which will be used to identify start-up establishments in the continental U.S. in the early 1990s and track their performance over a decade.Marshallian economies are at the heart of many core theories regarding urban spatial structure, regional growth, and business competitiveness. Although the considerable body of theoretical work on localization lends insight into the workings of the spatial economy, there is still scant empirical research to validate or dispel competing theories. This study will contribute to existing knowledge by testing for the existence of Marshallian externalities using new data and alternative outcome measures. It will be the first study of localization to explicitly test for spatial non-stationarity, which may reveal possible omitted variables, measurement error, or other types of misspecification bias. Finally, the study will address the important policy question of what factors generate an advantageous environment for new business success. Project results therefore should help inform policy initiatives aimed at boosting the performance of new and small businesses. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.
创业企业被广泛认为是创新和长期区域增长的重要来源。 然而,大多数初创企业在成立后的头几年就失败了,而且不同行业的失败率差异很大。 为了解释这种差异,最近的研究确定了初创企业生存的障碍,包括一个行业的最低有效生产规模和与新产品新兴市场有关的不确定性。 本博士论文研究改进项目的目的是调查新公司经营的当地经济环境是否影响其生存的可能性。 具体而言,本研究测试是否接近马歇尔空间外部性的三个关键来源(劳动力池,投入供应商和知识溢出)的影响生存率的初创企业在几个制造业和先进的生产者服务业部门。 空间外部性可能是生存的地理差异的来源,主要有两个原因。 首先,空间外部性使较小的企业能够获得规模的外部利益,以抵消内部规模的劣势。 第二,它们通过知识溢出的有益影响,帮助确保成功的创新。 该研究将使用几种互补的分析方法,包括探索性空间分析技术,生命表分析和事件持续时间回归模型。 一种新的空间建模技术(地理加权回归)将用于测试外部性与生存之间的关系是否是一个空间非平稳过程,正如强调社会和文化背景在加强本地化力量方面的重要性的工业区研究所建议的那样。 该项目的核心是美国劳工统计局新开发的纵向数据集,该数据集将用于识别20世纪90年代初美国大陆的初创企业,并跟踪其十年的业绩。马歇尔经济体是许多关于城市空间结构、区域增长和商业竞争力的核心理论的核心。 虽然大量的本地化理论研究有助于深入了解空间经济的运作,但仍然缺乏实证研究来验证或消除竞争理论。 这项研究将有助于现有的知识测试马歇尔外部性的存在,使用新的数据和替代的结果措施。 这将是第一个明确测试空间非平稳性的本地化研究,这可能会揭示可能遗漏的变量,测量误差或其他类型的错误设定偏差。 最后,本研究将解决一个重要的政策问题,即哪些因素为新企业的成功创造了有利的环境。 因此,项目成果应有助于为旨在提高新企业和小企业业绩的政策举措提供信息。 作为博士论文研究改进奖,该奖项还将提供支持,使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立的研究生涯。

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{{ truncateString('Edward Feser', 18)}}的其他基金

Regions, Industrial Dominance, and Business Success: An Inquiry into the Geography of Economic Adjustment, Flexibility, and Competitiveness
地区、产业主导地位和商业成功:经济调整、灵活性和竞争力地理的探究
  • 批准号:
    0423900
  • 财政年份:
    2004
  • 资助金额:
    $ 1.2万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant
Collaborative Research: The Clustering of U.S. Business Enterprises in the 1990s
合作研究:20世纪90年代美国企业的集群
  • 批准号:
    9986541
  • 财政年份:
    2000
  • 资助金额:
    $ 1.2万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant

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