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Table 2 Comparison of data sources and datasets

From: Relational capital for shared vision in innovation ecosystems

 

DAR

EFR

SAR

 

Deals and Alliances Relationships,

Executive and Finance Relationships

Startup and Angel Relationships

Source

Proprietary (Thomson Reuters Financial) based on US SEC Data

Innovation Ecosystems (IEN) dataset (Rubens et al. 2010), a socially constructed data source maintained for research purposes (based on social media, news, and press releases)

Type of data

Alliance data (strategic, R&D, marketing, manufacturing, licensing, and supply) and status (active, terminated, pending) of public and private firms (37 SIC Codes, 4-digit)

Relationship data of public and private firms, founders and key executives, angels and financial organizations, educational institutions, funding rounds, acquisitions, investments by individuals and companies

Types of relationships

Corporation to corporation

Individuals to companies, financing by individuals, companies, and VCs to companies, individuals to educational institutions

Years covered

1/1/1990 to 2014, cumulative

1/1/1994 to 2014, cumulative

2010 to 2014, cumulative

Data size

 

More than 200,000 companies and more than 200,000 key individuals

More than 50,000 companies and almost 150,000 individuals.

Comment

One of the most prominent, comprehensive, and accurate commercial databases used in the study of global interfirm relationships across multiple sectors (Schilling 2009)

Collection of socially constructed data about technology-oriented companies in the information communication technology fields and the service companies (legal, accounting, advertising) that support them