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Founded in 1993, the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy has established itself as one of the premier nonpartisan public policy think tanks in the country. The institute ranks 4th among university-affiliated think tanks worldwide, 18th among U.S. think tanks and 2nd among energy resource think tanks, according to a 2015 study by the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program. As an integral part of Rice University, one of the nation's most distinguished institutions of higher education, the Baker Institute has a strong track record of achievement based on the work of its endowed fellows, Rice faculty scholars and staff. Located in Houston, Texas, the nation's fourth-largest city and the energy capital of the United States, as well as a dynamic international business and cultural center, the Baker Institute brings a unique perspective to some of the most important public policy challenges of our time.
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==About the wiki==
  
The Baker Institute's McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has a mandate to conduct policy-relevant research and advocate for entrepreneurs and innovators. The center develops academic papers intended for publication in peer-reviewed journals, as well as policy reports, issue briefs, white papers, Op. Eds., wiki pages and blog articles. In this work the center develops our understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation as phenomena that create economic growth, and conveys this understanding to academics, policy-makers, entrepreneurs, students and the public. The McNair Center also takes an active role in helping entrepreneurs and developing entrepreneurship ecosystems.
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[[File:StoweTownHall50pcEdEgan.jpg|right|thumb|320px|This site is hosted in Stowe, Vermont]]</div>
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[https://www.edegan.com/wiki www.edegan.com/wiki] hosts a [https://www.mediawiki.org mediawiki]-based collaboration platform, which provides a development environment, documentation, and content, for [[affiliate]]d economic researchers, as well as computer scientists and finance professionals. It primarily supports research lead by or conducted in partnership with [[Ed Egan]]. Accordingly, much of the platform is targeted towards research in corporate finance, industrial organization, business economics, and firm strategy, especially as it is applied to the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation. However, the [[tool|tools]], [[data]], and other [[projects|project]] outputs it documents are applicable to many other disciplines and topic areas.
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Previous incarnations of this wiki supported the Georgetown University team working on [[Kauffman Incubator Project]], the work done by over [[McNair Team|70 research interns]] at the [[McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation]] at Rice University's Baker Institute, and the doctoral community at the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley, especially in the [[Business and Public Policy]] group. Much of this content, as well as several hundred pages from prior versions of Ed's personal website, is available as a part of the [[Information Library]]. A variety of [[how-to]] and [[guide|guides]], including documentation on how to build and configure [[Research Computing Infrastructure]], and other useful resources are also archived there.
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==About the blog==
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[https://www.edegan.com/blog www.edegan.com/blog] was revamped in October 2020. It now hosts a blog named "The Economics of Growth", which provides articles about articles about economic, corporate, and personal growth written by [[Ed Egan]]. It also provides an archive for [[All McNair blog posts|more than 50 articles]] written by [[https://www.edegan.com/blog/blog-contributors/ students and staff]] at the [[McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation]] where Ed was the founding director from 2015 to 2018.

Latest revision as of 15:27, 19 October 2020

About the wiki

This site is hosted in Stowe, Vermont

www.edegan.com/wiki hosts a mediawiki-based collaboration platform, which provides a development environment, documentation, and content, for affiliated economic researchers, as well as computer scientists and finance professionals. It primarily supports research lead by or conducted in partnership with Ed Egan. Accordingly, much of the platform is targeted towards research in corporate finance, industrial organization, business economics, and firm strategy, especially as it is applied to the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation. However, the tools, data, and other project outputs it documents are applicable to many other disciplines and topic areas.

Previous incarnations of this wiki supported the Georgetown University team working on Kauffman Incubator Project, the work done by over 70 research interns at the McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Rice University's Baker Institute, and the doctoral community at the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley, especially in the Business and Public Policy group. Much of this content, as well as several hundred pages from prior versions of Ed's personal website, is available as a part of the Information Library. A variety of how-to and guides, including documentation on how to build and configure Research Computing Infrastructure, and other useful resources are also archived there.

About the blog

www.edegan.com/blog was revamped in October 2020. It now hosts a blog named "The Economics of Growth", which provides articles about articles about economic, corporate, and personal growth written by Ed Egan. It also provides an archive for more than 50 articles written by [students and staff] at the McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation where Ed was the founding director from 2015 to 2018.