Networks and Big Data for Small Towns and Businesses January 14, 2014 presentation to Southern Rural...

Networks and Big Datafor Small Towns and Businesses

January 14, 2014

presentation to Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC)

Board, Administrators, Staff, Partners, and Clientele

by Maureen KilkennyCandidate for SRDC Director

agenda: Motivations Vision for the SRDC

Networks Big Data Project Proposals

Your Ideas and Questions

Outline Motivations Vision Networks Big Data Proposals


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Vision: Opportunity and prosperity for all of the rural South

community development, coordination, and innovation

are essential for rural economic development.

small towns and businesses can’t afford to identify all the relevant partners or analyze all the data they need to make effective choices.

Beliefs: Rural people develop rural America.


A classic economic geography question: ‘why are some places rich and others poor?’

Acemoglu and Robinson (2012) write: “institutions that enforce property rights, create a level playing field, and encourage investments in new technologies and skills are more conducive to economic growth than economic institutions that are structured to extract resources from the many by the few.”

Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson, (2001), ‘The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation’, American Economic Review, 91, 1369–1401.

Acemoglu, Daron, and James Robinson, (2012) Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Crown Business Publishers.


DISCOVERING NEW IDEAS, APPLYING NEW STRATEGIES

SRDC MISSION

The Southern Rural Development Center builds capacity to catalyze economic growth in the rural South.

We collaborate with public, private, and NGO partners producing rural development research, education, and Extension that anticipates needs and offers effective solutions.

We enable networks and provide strategic information to help communities and businesses across the South to thrive.

Outline Motivations Vision Networks Big Data Proposals >>

networks

Beliefs: Rural people develop rural

America.

community development, coordination, and innovation are essential for rural economic development.

small towns and businesses can’t afford to identify all the relevant partners or analyze all the data they need to make effective choices.

proposed MISSION

The Southern Rural Development Center builds capacity to catalyze economic growth in the rural South.

We collaborate with public, private, and NGO partners producing rural development research, education, and Extension that anticipates needs and offers effective solutions.

We enable networks and provide strategic information to help communities and businesses across the South to thrive.


SRDC social networks

1) RCD Specialists at the 29 land grants, SRDC Board, SRDC TOAC

2) WRDC, NCRCRD, NERCRD, NARDeP

3) NACDEP4) PLN, ASRED, AEA, 5) USDA (NIFA, RD, ERS)

Kellogg, Kettering 6) Participating

community groups (Tide, Circles, …)

1) Researchers and students in other fields and colleges

2) CSREES regional projects, SBCDs, state USDA RD agents

3) NACO, COGs, Brookings,

4) SoRSA, RSAI, APA, RSS,5) EDA, SBA, NSF, HHS, TVA, DRA,

FED, Gates, Smiley, Mott,

6) Business and bankers’ associations, teachers and school boards, societies, financial education clubs,


2010 World Economic Forum ~200 leaders list of 50 “risks”

Q1: likelihood? Q2: severity? Q2: 3 most connected risks?


Issue Networks

August 24, 2013 What Is Economics Good For?By Alex Rosenberg and Tyler Curtain


2012 World Economic ForumGlobal Risks Map

Compare to 2010 map

…with just one more network measure:


some of my network analysis scholarship

Kilkenny, Maureen, Laura Nalbarte and Terry Besser (1999) “Reciprocated Community Support and Small Town, Small Business Success,” Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 11, Aug:231-246.

Kilkenny, Maureen and Laura Nalbarte (2000) Keystone Sector Identification: A Graph Theory-Social Network Analysis Approach, Web Book of Regional Science, http://www.rri.wvu.edu/regscweb.htm, West Virginia: Regional Research Institute.

Kilkenny, Maureen (2000) “Private Co-operation for the Public Good” Chapter 26:207-213 in Small Town and Rural Economic Development, P. Schaeffer and S. Loveridge, editors Praeger Press

Kilkenny, Maureen and Laura Nalbarte (2002) “Keystone Sector Identification” Chapter 16 in Trade, Networks, and Hierarchies: Modeling Regional and Interregional Economies, edited by G Hewings, M. Sonis, and D. Boyce, New York: Springer-Verlag.

Kilkenny, Maureen (2008) “Heteromorphous Community Networks” in Spatial Dispersed Production And Network Governance Invited Papers of the 11th Uddevalla Symposium 2008, edited by Irene Bernhard; Trollhattan : Department of Economics and IT, University West, Sweden.

Kilkenny, Maureen, and Nerys Fuller-Love (2013) “Network Analysis and Business Networks” International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Small Business (forthcoming).

Kilkenny, Maureen (2014) “Regional Social Network Analysis” in Charlie Karlsson and Martin Andersson, editors, Handbook in Research Methods and Applications in Economic Geography (forthcoming)


Big Data


Big Analyses

3,000 regression models were estimated to show the local effect of % college graduates (resident 1985-90) on subsequent employment change (1995-2000). Their contribution VARIES SIGNIFICANTLY across the country.


Data from 4,000 bank firms and 75,000 bank offices was ‘crunched’ to identify profitable places with few bank offices. The red indicates rural counties into which bank firms might consider opening a new branch… (aka ”market research”)


anyone care to guess what this data is?


some of my “Big Analysis” scholarship

Partridge, Mark D; Stephan J. Goetz, and Maureen R. Kilkenny (2013) “Why We Need Federal Statistical Data for States and Counties” CHOICES

Monchuk, Daniel, Maureen Kilkenny, and Euan Phimister (2012) “Rural Homeownership and Labour Mobility in the U.S.” Regional Studies.

Irwin, Elena, Andrew Isserman, Maureen Kilkenny, & Mark Partridge (2010) “A Century of Research on Rural Development and Regional Issues” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 92(2): 522–553.

Kilkenny, Maureen (2010) “Urban/Regional Economics and Rural Development” Journal of Regional Science 50th Anniversary Issue 50(1) 449-470.

Ahearn, Mary, Maureen Kilkenny, and Sarah Low (2009) “Trends and Volatility in School Finance” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(5):1201-1208.

Kilkenny, Maureen and Mark Partridge (2009) “Export Sectors and Rural Development” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(4):910-929.

Huffman, Sonya and Maureen Kilkenny (2007) “Regional Welfare Program & Labor Force Participation” Papers in Regional Science 86(2):215-239.

Kilkenny, Maureen, and Robert Jolly (2005) "Are Rural Credit Markets Competitive? Is there room for competition in rural credit markets?" Choices 20(1)

Kilkenny, Maureen and Sonya Huffman (2003) “Rural/Urban Welfare Program and Labor Force Participation” American Journal of Agricultural Economics November, 85(4):914-927.


Project proposals provide current strategic information online using GIS, network analysis and Big

Data Link workers, suppliers, or buyers in one locality with expanding firms in

another Identify underserved areas in the South

private markets (eg bank credit, healthcare, …) public program participation (e.g., EITC, retraining, CAPE…)

help schools teach and adults learn new economy skills: entrepreneurship, 3-D Printing

raise financial savvy and success train financial literacy trainers Partner with SBDCs to assist rural business start-ups and pivots

develop spatially-explicit input-output software for regional analysis Sponsor Southern rural development research “tournaments” Coordinate “clinic” courses and service learning activities for students Coordinate “borrow your neighbor’s hen” reciprocity arrangements between

faculty in different states to provide economic analyses of politically sensitive issues Coordinate the provision of rigorous, scientific program and project evaluation


Your questions? Motivations Vision for the SRDC

Networks Big Data Project Proposals

About me?


Produce buyer & founding member, Davis Food Co-op, 1972-76 Chair, North Oakland Center Council, Berkeley Co-op, 1977-79 MS & PhD, U. Minnesota, Ag. and Applied Economics, 1981-87 Economist, Economic Research Service, USDA, 1987-88

Bio sketch

Asst. Prof., Dept. of Economics, Penn State, 1989-91 Asst. Prof., Economics Institute, CU Boulder, 1991-93 Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Economics, Iowa State, 1994-2005 Prof., Dept. of Resource Economics, UNR, 2005-11 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Business School, U. Wales, 2010- Senior Fellow, NCFAP, 2010- Science Officer, AgConversions, 2012-

Qualifications/experience

Tenured full professor with 22 years experience in four types of departments Domestic and internationally known researcher and scholar Award-winning teacher, advisor, mentor Director of graduate and undergraduate programs, advising, curriculum,

assessment, recruitment, internships, awards, placement Founder of two national endowed graduate fellowship programs Founding director of three university-wide international academic exchanges Elected chairman of a wide variety of professional associations Dept, college P&T committee, chair; university panelist: Research; IRB;

Sponsored Programs; Curriculum; member of Faculty Senate Longstanding partnerships with federal agencies (USDA, Fed, NSF,…) PD on millions $ multi-state, interdisciplinary, competitively-funded research Decades of voluntary service on local and state panels and committees

some of my Extension experience

Provided economic analyses of alternative fiscal packages for the FiRST Blue Ribbon Panel in Nevada.

Helped write statewide standards for the K-12 economics and finance curricula for Nevada schools.

Engaged team of community leaders, economic development professionals, bankers, and Extension specialists in “Geography of Rural Financial Intermediation” project in IA and SD.

Provided site location assistance to cooperatively-owned ethanol plant start-ups in Iowa.

Provided economic analyses of business incentive programs to the Governor of Iowa.

Prepared a variety of ‘on-demand’ research for community groups and Extension programs on a wide range of topics.

Thank You!

Map of FED districts

SRDC states are in six FED regions: 4,5,6,8,10, and 11

SRDC networks

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