Innovating Infrastructure: A new platform for studying dynamic regional economies

创新基础设施：研究动态区域经济的新平台

• 批准号: 1439532
• 负责人: Nichola Lowe
• 金额: $ 36.53万
• 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: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1439532&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Innovating; Infrastructure; new; platform; studying

This research focuses on geographically-defined economic regions in order to understand why some regions thrive while others stagnate. The key barrier to such research is the lack of detailed, time-series data at the individual, firm, and institutional level. Over the past 6 years, the researchers have acquired such data on over 4200 technology firms in the Research Triangle Park region of North Carolina and they are now able to examine the spatial and temporal relationships between economic entities and uncover the drivers of regional economic outcomes.The researchers have developed a relational database and tool sets that enables the organization, curation, and search of this data. They are now extending this solution with a cyberinfrastructure that manages diverse types of economic data, aids in integration of newer data, and powers new approaches for analysis and visualization of geo-spatial-temporal data, while addressing privacy and security concerns. Through this new cyberinfrastructure, a community of interdisciplinary scholars are able to have access to the data and tools on regional economics. Likewise, policy makers and economic practitioners could have access to reporting tools that provide greater detail than is available today. Going forward, the developed cyberinfrastructure provides both a framework and needed solutions to power other regional research systems and thus further extend our knowledge of regional economics.

这项研究的重点是地理上定义的经济区域，以了解为什么有些地区蓬勃发展，而其他地区停滞不前。这种研究的主要障碍是缺乏个人、公司和机构层面的详细的时间序列数据。 在过去的6年里，研究人员已经获得了北卡罗来纳州研究三角园区地区4200多家技术公司的数据，他们现在能够检查经济实体之间的空间和时间关系，并发现区域经济成果的驱动因素。研究人员开发了一个关系数据库和工具集，可以组织，策展和搜索这些数据。他们现在正在通过网络基础设施扩展这一解决方案，该基础设施管理各种类型的经济数据，帮助整合新数据，并为地理时空数据的分析和可视化提供新方法，同时解决隐私和安全问题。通过这种新的网络基础设施，跨学科学者社区能够获得区域经济学的数据和工具。同样，决策者和经济从业人员可以获得比目前提供的更详细的报告工具。展望未来，发达的网络基础设施提供了一个框架和所需的解决方案，为其他区域研究系统提供动力，从而进一步扩展我们对区域经济的了解。