Big Data and the Computational Social Science of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08706v1
• Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 16:13:18 GMT
• Title: Big Data and the Computational Social Science of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• Authors: Ningzi Li, Shiyang Lai, James Evans,
• Abstract summary: This chapter discusses the difficulties of leveraging large-scale data to identify technological and commercial novelty.<n>It suggests how scholars can take advantage of new text, network, image, audio, and video data in two distinct ways.<n>It argues for the advancement of theory development and testing in entrepreneurship and innovation by coupling big data with big models.
• Score: 1.0104586293349587
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: As large-scale social data explode and machine-learning methods evolve, scholars of entrepreneurship and innovation face new research opportunities but also unique challenges. This chapter discusses the difficulties of leveraging large-scale data to identify technological and commercial novelty, document new venture origins, and forecast competition between new technologies and commercial forms. It suggests how scholars can take advantage of new text, network, image, audio, and video data in two distinct ways that advance innovation and entrepreneurship research. First, machine-learning models, combined with large-scale data, enable the construction of precision measurements that function as system-level observatories of innovation and entrepreneurship across human societies. Second, new artificial intelligence models fueled by big data generate 'digital doubles' of technology and business, forming laboratories for virtual experimentation about innovation and entrepreneurship processes and policies. The chapter argues for the advancement of theory development and testing in entrepreneurship and innovation by coupling big data with big models.

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