ANNOUNCE: COMETS database now available

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From: Mindee Forman [mforman at consultant.kauffman.org]" on behalf of "E. J. Reedy [ereedy at consultant.kauffman.org]
Date: Wed 26 Oct 2011 16:49

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http://www.kauffman.org/comets 

The COMETS database is now available. Version 1.0 contains parsed, cleaned, integrated, and beta-tested data from U.S. Patents granted and NSF and NIH grants with a unique ID assigned to the same organization wherever it appears in any record in COMETS.

Over the next several years, COMETS builders Lynne G. Zucker, Michael R. Darby, and their UCLA-NBER research team plan to release successive COMETS versions extending the integrated database to include all published U.S. patent applications, SBIR and STTR grants, U.S. research universities (IPEDS/HEGIS), and U.S. dissertations. Zucker and Darby are also working to include scientist IDs similar to the organization ID and a compiled table of all organizations appearing in any of the legacy databases spanned by or used in construction of COMETS including type (firm, university, research institute, etc.), first and last appearance dates, preferred (most frequent) and variant names, locations with alternative geo-codes, and (for public firms) ticker and CUSIP symbols. The organization data files will serve not only as a sampling frame but also will directly enable a wide variety of studies of private and public high-technology firms and other organizations in the national innovation system.  Zucker and Darby have shown that first appearance dates serve as a good proxy for entry dates into new technologies both for start-ups and pre-existing firms extending into the technology, enabling analyses of both entry and duration from entry to various success measures. While some data sources apply only to the United States, all observations are included where they are available. Additional details available at http://www.kauffman.org/COMETS/About-COMETS.aspx. 

Travel Grants Available
Academic researchers with research papers that use the COMETS data may apply for travel funding to cover airfare and hotel expenses for two purposes: 1) presentation of research papers at academic conferences and 2) use of COMETS and STARS confidential data http://www.kauffman.org/COMETS/About-COMETS.aspx at UCLA or NBER.

Additional details available at http://www.kauffman.org/COMETS/Funding-Opportunities.aspx. 


COMETS is based upon work supported by the Kauffman Foundation and the National Science Foundation's SCISIP program. Additional support is provided by Dean Frank Gilliam, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and the Easton Technology Leadership Program in the UCLA Anderson School.

Thanks!

E.J.

E.J. Reedy || Kauffman Foundation ||
ereedy at kauffman.org || 816.210.9461
Read Data Maven ¬ www.kauffman.org/datamaven

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[1] See Darby and Zucker, "Grilichesian Breakthroughs: Inventions of Methods of Inventing in Nanotechnology and Biotechnology," Annales d’Economie et Statistique, 2005, 79/80: 143-164; Zucker and Darby, "Movement of Star Scientists and Engineers and High-Tech Firm Entry," NBER Working Paper No. 12172, April 2006, revised October 2006 [click here http://www.nber.org/papers/w12094]; Zucker and Darby, “Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration,” in D.B. Audretsch, R.E. Litan, and R.J. Strom, eds., Entrepreneurship and Openness: Theory and Evidence, volume 2 in the series Industrial Dynamics, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Northampton, MA: Edward 
Elgar, 2009.