Circling the Triangle: Understanding Dynamic Regional Economies

该项目将增进对促进和维持区域经济发展的进程和体制支持的了解。区域是促进创业活动的重要平台；然而，很少有人尝试捕捉影响创新组织如何合作、调整和即兴发挥作用的动态过程，以确定一个正常运作的创业经济。通过对北卡罗来纳州研究三角地区的实证调查，该项目调查了创业发展的多条途径，并考虑了公共和私人投资的组合如何影响公司和行业的生存和增长。更好地了解支持区域创业的多种途径和干预措施将反过来促进创新和创业政策的制定。该项目通过对创业公司和老牌公司、支持机构以及将它们联系在一起的无数交易的全面分析，研究了研究三角的创业区域经济。为了支持我们的分析，项目组创建了一个独特的关系数据库，其中包含该地区技术密集型企业的纵向数据。该数据库目前包含三角地区4200多家公司的属性信息、与公司成长和生存有关的事件以及公司创始人的传记信息。对于每家公司，该数据库还跟踪联邦、州和地方主要创业和经济发展机构提供的机构支持的水平和顺序。这些数据独一无二地捕捉了地区性技术初创公司的全貌，包括已知已倒闭、合并或被收购的公司的信息，这些公司的子集往往无法获得，但对创业动态至关重要。该数据库被设计为州和联邦政策制定的资源，目的是进一步提高区域创新能力。更广泛的影响。在世界各地，政策制定者都在寻找合适的经济发展政策和投资。许多人将北卡罗来纳州的研究三角视为成功的政策导向型经济发展的例子，但确切的机制和政策杠杆并不为人所知。因此，人们倾向于淡化政策干预和互动对企业战略和发展的影响。该项目提供了一种以数据为导向的解决方案，为追踪干预措施的顺序和促进有助于和帮助维持创业发展的活动提供了必要的资源。它还有助于揭示支持新企业形成的多条创业路径的存在。例如，已经收集的数据显示，创业公司从基于大学的技术转移系统中脱颖而出的可能性与来自孵化创业人才和技能的大型跨国公司的可能性一样大。该项目的目标是创建一个可转移的框架，用于分析其他地区的动态。这项对研究三角的研究为在公司和机构两级汇编和收集可转移到其他区域的数据提供了一个测试案例。

This project will increase understanding of the processes and institutional supports that promote and sustain regional economic development. Regions are important platforms for promoting entrepreneurial activity; however, there have been few attempts to capture the dynamic processes that affect how innovative organizations work together, adapt and improvise to define a functioning entrepreneurial economy. Through an empirical investigation of North Carolina's Research Triangle Region, the project investigate multiple pathways of entrepreneurial development and consider how combinations of public and private investments affect the survival and growth of firms and industries. A better understanding of the multiple pathways and interventions that support regional entrepreneurship will, in turn, enhance development of policy for innovation and entrepreneurship. The project studies the entrepreneurial regional economy of the Research Triangle through a comprehensive analysis of both entrepreneurial and established firms, supporting institutions and the myriad transactions that unite them. To support our analysis, the project team has created a unique relational database, which contains longitudinal data on technology-intensive ventures in the region. This database currently contains information on the attributes of over 4,200 companies in the Triangle region, events related to the company's growth and survival and biographic information on the company's founders. For each firm, the database also traces the level and sequence of institutional support from key Federal, state and local entrepreneurial and economic development agencies. These data uniquely capture the universe of regional technology start-ups, including information on companies known to have gone out of business, merged or been acquired, a subset of firms that is frequently unavailable but essential to entrepreneurial dynamics. The database has been designed as a resource for state and Federal policy development, with the goal of further enhancing regional innovative capacity. Broader impact. Around the world, policy makers search for appropriate economic development policies and investments. Many look to North Carolina's Research Triangle as an example of successful policy-led economic development yet the precise mechanisms and policy levers are not well known. As a result, there is a tendency to downplay the influence of policy interventions and interactions on firm strategy and development. This project offers a data-driven solution by providing an essential resource for tracing the sequence of interventions and facilitating events that contribute to and help sustain entrepreneurial development. It also helps to reveal the existence of multiple entrepreneurial pathways that support new firm formation. For example, the data already collected reveal that entrepreneurial firms are just as likely to emerge from university-based technology transfer systems as they are from large multinational corporations that incubate entrepreneurial talent and skill. The project's objective is to create a transferable framework for analyzing regional dynamics elsewhere. This study of the Research Triangle provides a test case for compiling and collecting data at both the firm and institutional levels that would be transferable to other regions.