The Long-Term Regional Economic Impacts from Public Investment in University Research

大学研究公共投资对区域经济的长期影响

• 批准号: 1158794
• 负责人: Shawn Kantor
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1158794&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Long; Term; Regional; Economic; Impacts

This project creates a new database of county-level productivity of manufacturing firms from 1947 to 1992. These historical data have been published in the Manufacturing Census reports, but are not yet electronically available. This data-collection project offers the first electronically-available information on U.S. manufacturing at the county level over a fairly long period of time. Data on 24 industries, across roughly 3,143 counties, over 10 Manufacturing Census years (1947, 1954, 1958, 1963, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1992) yields 754,320 county-industry-year observations of cost, quantity, and productivity.The investigators' ultimate goal is to construct a body of data that will enable them to examine how publicly-funded scientific knowledge flows across locations, and how these knowledge flows affect the development of regional economies -- thus advancing the understanding of the returns to public investment in scientific university research. The data collected under the auspices of this grant will facilitate a study of how investments in Cold-War and Space Race-era science impacted regional economies from 1947 to 1992. Research into this important historical episode in the ascendency of the modern American research university (and a period of overall economic growth for the nation, punctuated by economic and political crises) will help to uncover the extent to which the broad economic effects of public investment in university science last for many decades or are simply transitory. Through documenting changes over time in cost, efficiency, and productivity, the data will also help to shed light on the channels through which university knowledge benefits the private manufacturing sector. Broader impacts: The panel database on the productivity of American manufacturers in the Cold War and Space Race periods is useful to a wide range of scholars interested in the direct and indirect impacts of science and technology policy at the local level and in the path of U.S. economic development more generally. The research will extend a database on the economics of American research universities developed under prior NSF support to provide an inventory of scientific capital and personnel at each university and thus an estimate of the historical capacity of these universities to absorb new scientific funding. The need to generate a consistent panel of industry-county data provides financial support for an undergraduate research assistant.

该项目从1947年至1992年创建了制造公司县级生产率的新数据库。这些历史数据已在制造人口普查报告中发布，但尚未以电子方式获得。该数据收集项目在相当长的一段时间内提供了有关县级美国制造业的第一个电子产品的信息。关于24个行业的数据，大约3,143个县，超过10个制造人口普查年（1947年，1954年，1958年，1963年，1963年，1967年，1972年，1972年，1977年，1982年，1982年，1987年和1992年），县 - 320县 - 县 - 独立型年度的成本，数量和生产力的观察。跨越地点的流动以及这些知识流如何影响区域经济的发展，从而促进了对科学大学研究中公共投资回报的理解。根据这笔赠款的主持人收集的数据将有助于研究冷战和太空时代科学的投资如何影响1947年至1992年的地区经济。对现代美国研究大学上升的这一重要历史情节的研究（对国家的整体经济增长，经济和政治危机的整体经济增长时期，对公共经济的范围都有范围的经济影响，这将有助于跨越广泛的经济效应。 通过记录成本，效率和生产力随着时间的变化，数据还将有助于阐明大学知识使私人制造业受益的渠道。 更广泛的影响：对冷战和太空竞赛期美国制造商生产率的小组数据库对对科学和技术政策在地方一级以及美国经济发展的道路上的直接和间接影响感兴趣的广泛学者有用。这项研究将扩展一个有关在先前的NSF支持下开发的美国研究大学经济学的数据库，以提供每所大学的科学资本和人员清单，从而估算这些大学的历史能力，以吸收新的科学资金。生成一致的行业县数据小组的需求为本科研究助理提供了财务支持。