Collaborative Research: Role of Intellectual Capital in predicting outcomes of Entrepreneurial and Mature Firms

创业型企业在创造就业、经济复苏和将创新推向市场方面发挥着重要作用。然而，关于创业型企业所雇用的劳动力的智力资本所发挥的作用的讨论是有限的。是成功的企业家的智力资本存量不同，这些差异很早就表现出来并得到市场的回报，还是他们早期的优势和地点选择使他们能够驾驭阻碍不那么幸运的企业的市场缺陷和冲击？在这个项目中，我们研究如何在美国的创业公司的技能水平在过去十年中发生了变化，特别是在应对竞争冲击。拟议的项目可以告知哪些类型的企业家获得成功，创始人的人力资本发挥的具体作用，以及竞争加剧和技术变革等冲击如何影响创业公司的成果。为了了解创业型企业智力资本存量的驱动因素，我们将建立一个关于创业型企业技能概况的纵向数据库。这些数据将来源于美国劳工统计局对2005-2013年美国800多个职业的初创企业和现有企业员工技能进行的大规模调查的企业级微观数据。使用超过1000万的建立职业水平的观察，我们将解决三个主要的研究问题。首先，我们将确定在此期间进入者的技能构成的变化，以及与这些变化相关的因素。其次，我们将确定环境冲击及其对创业企业的智力资本和竞争力的影响。最后，我们将研究建立智力资本对企业随后的智力资本和其他结果的长期影响。

Entrepreneurial firms play an important role in employment generation, economic recovery, and bringing innovation to the marketplace. However, the discussion on the role played by the intellectual capital of the workforce employed by entrepreneurial firms has been limited. Is it the case that the entrepreneurs that succeed are different in their stock of intellectual capital and these differences are manifested and rewarded by the market very early on, or is it that their early advantages and location choices enable them to navigate market imperfections and shocks that hinder less lucky establishments? In this project, we study how the skill-level of entrepreneurial firms in the United States has changed over the past decade particularly in response to competitive shocks. The proposed project can inform what types of entrepreneurs succeed, the specific role played by founders' human capital, and how shocks such as increased competition and technological changes affect entrepreneurial firm outcomes. To understand the drivers of the stock of intellectual capital in entrepreneurial firms, we will assemble a longitudinal database on the skill profiles of entrepreneurial firms. The data will be sourced from establishment level micro-data from a panel of large-scale surveys conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the skills of employees of start-ups and incumbent firms in over 800 occupations in U.S. over 2005-2013. Using over 10 million establishment-occupation level observations, we will address three primary research questions. First, we will identify the change in the composition of skills of entrants over this period, and factors that are associated with these changes. Second, we will identify environmental shocks and their effects on the intellectual capital and competitiveness of entrepreneurial firms. Finally, we will examine the long-term consequences of founding intellectual capital on firms' subsequent intellectual capital and other outcomes.