Data

Startup Cartography Project data

Entrepreneurship statistics for the United States from 1988 to 2016, built from business registration records, for every state, metro area, county, and ZIP code. The files are free to download from Harvard Dataverse under a CC0 license, each in an academic and a policy version. The Startup Cartography Project was developed by Jorge Guzman and Scott Stern.

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GeographyRows
United States by year29
State by year1,444
Metro area by year29,661
County by year88,049
ZIP code by year824,770

Measures

EQI
Entrepreneurial quality: the average new firm’s chance of an IPO or a major acquisition
SFR
Startup formation rate: the number of new business registrations
RECPI
Regional Entrepreneurship Cohort Potential Index: the number of new firms adjusted for their quality
REAI
Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Index: how many high-growth outcomes a cohort actually reached, compared with what its quality predicted

Cite

Andrews, RJ; Fazio, Catherine; Guzman, Jorge; Liu, Yupeng; Stern, Scott, 2019, “The Startup Cartography Project”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BMRPVH, Harvard Dataverse, V7.

Paper

The measures are described in The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and Mapping Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Research Policy, 2022. You can also explore the data on the U.S. Startup Map.