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Latest revision as of 16:58, 21 March 2017
Simple Things
- Weekly blog post summarizing news/McNair posts in entrepreneurship and innovation
- Could be automated by computer science interns?
- Stats (quarterly?) on Houston/Texas
- Patents
- VC
- Small business
- Big deals (notable $$$) in Houston/Texas
- New laws and litigation surrounding entrep/innovation
Ideas for projects
- Small business lending in Houston/Texas
- Get SBA lending data over time
- Relate to some econ metric -- i.e. price of oil, real estate
- Innovation in the Oil and Gas Industry
- Break S&P 500 into some number of related industries
- Count patents for firms in each (patent data)
- Count acquisitions and mergers for firms in each (SDC)
- Get R&D spending data (from compstat)
- For reading/research/general knowledge: read about open vs closed innovation as described by Henry Chesborough
- Break S&P 500 into some number of related industries
- University Patenting
- ID universities as assignees in patent data
- Measure change over time, data as a funciton of size, prestige, geographic location, endowment
- AUM data on liscensing
- Relation to NSF/NIH/etc
- for reading/researching/general knowledge: read about Bayh-Dole Act
