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Our project will advance the capacity of researchers and policymakers to measure the characteristics and performance of entrepreneurship ecosystem institutions. We will create a set of tools to automate the identification and classification of ecosystem organizations, and the extraction of data from their websites. Specifically, our goal is goals are to develop a system to 1) classify entrepreneurship ecosystem organizations, including high-growth technology incubators, startups, and venture capitalists based on a short textual description; 2) identify the client listing page on an incubator's website; and 3) automate the extraction of information about startups from an incubator's client listing page; and to make this system available to the public as opensource software. At present, we envision using neural networks in these tools, and we expect that the third element will require new computer science.