Circling the Triangle: Understanding Dynamic Regional Economies

环绕三角形：了解充满活力的区域经济

• 批准号: 1262392
• 负责人: Nichola Lowe
• 金额: $ 41.96万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1262392&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Circling; Triangle; Understanding; Dynamic; Regional

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.

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助的了解。区域是促进创业活动的重要平台;然而，很少有人试图捕捉影响创新组织如何合作、适应和即兴发挥以界定一个运作良好的创业经济的动态过程。通过对北卡罗来纳州研究三角区的实证调查，该项目研究了创业发展的多种途径，并考虑公共和私人投资的组合如何影响企业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，反过来又会促进创新和创业政策的制定。 该项目通过全面分析创业和成熟的公司，支持机构和将它们联合起来的无数交易，研究三角研究的创业区域经济。为了支持我们的分析，项目团队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4 200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。对于每一家公司，该数据库还追踪了关键的联邦、州和地方创业和经济发展机构提供机构支助的水平和顺序。这些数据独特地捕捉了区域技术初创企业的宇宙，包括已知已经停业、合并或被收购的公司的信息，这些公司往往是不可用的，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，决策者都在寻求适当的经济发展政策和投资。许多人把北卡罗来纳州的研究三角区视为政策主导经济发展的成功范例，但确切的机制和政策杠杆并不为人所知。因此，有一种倾向是淡化政策干预和相互作用对公司战略和发展的影响。该项目提供了一个数据驱动的解决方案，为跟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公司形成的多种创业途径的存在。例如，已经收集到的数据表明，创业型公司从大学技术转让系统中产生的可能性与它们从孵化创业人才和技能的大型跨国公司中产生的可能性一样大。该项目的目标是建立一个可转移的框架，用于分析其他地方的区域动态。对三角研究区的这项研究为在公司和机构两级汇编和收集数据提供了一个试验案例，这些数据可转移到其他区域。