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, 13:50, 21 October 2016Created page with "==Simple Things== *Weekly blog post summarizing news/McNair posts in entrepreneurship and innovation **Could be automated by computer science interns? *Stats (quarterly?) on H..."
==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 $$$) in Houston/Texas
*New laws and litigation surrounding entrep/innovation
==Ideas for projects==
*Small business lending in Houston/Texas
**Get SBA lending data over time
**Relate to some econ metric -- i.e. price of oil, real estate
*Innovation in the Oil and Gas Industry
**Break S&P 500 into some number of related industries
***Count patents for firms in each (patent data)
***Count acquisitions and mergers for firms in each (SDC)
***Get R&D spending data (from compstat)
**For reading/research/general knowledge: read about open vs closed innovation as described by Henry Chesborough
*University Patenting
**ID universities as assignees in patent data
**Measure change over time, data as a funciton of size, prestige, geographic location, endowment
**AUM data on liscensing
**Relation to NSF/NIH/etc
**for reading/researching/general knowledge: read about Bayh-Dole Act
*Weekly blog post summarizing news/McNair posts in entrepreneurship and innovation
**Could be automated by computer science interns?
*Stats (quarterly?) on Houston/Texas
**Patents
**VC
**Small business
*Big deals (notable $$$) 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
*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
