University ecosystem analytics: Case study of regional integration and competitiveness in California and Texas

Despite substantial policy efforts aimed at developing regional innovation systems (RIS), our understanding of institutional factors that promote synergy and integration at the regional scale is limited. To address this gap, we constructed 2 representations of research university ecosystems in California (CA) and Texas (TX) that identify institutional co-occurrences in research and news media, within and across these regions. The selection of these regions is attributed to the University of California and the University of Texas, two multi-campus university systems (MUS) that feature distinct configurations of institutional specialization. As such, we exploit these differences to analyze four institutional assortativity channels that foster system-level synergies: institutional proximity, prestige, homophily, and specialization.
The first representation we constructed is based upon ~3 million publications collected from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection (WOS) that are a..., 1) Research affiliated with a particular institution. We collected 2,965,198 records published between 1970-2020 from the Clarivate Analytics WOS Core Collection using their in-house institutional disambiguation tool to identify publications with at least one author from a particular campus.
2) Digital media affiliated with a particular institution. We assembled a dataset of 1,947,349
unique web-based digital media articles representing news articles, blog posts and other web content specifically mentioning any of the institutions by their official name, e.g. “University of California Los Angeles” or “UCLA”, accounting for the official abbreviations. These media articles were originally produced by 57,947 unique media sources, according to primary source data obtained from the Media Cloud project (MC) database, https://www.mediacloud.org/ .
We use both data sources to develop a co-occurrence framework for defining university-university relationships based upon research co-production (vi..., , # University ecosystem analytics - Case study of regional integration and competitiveness in CA and TX:

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## Brief summary

This document describes the contents of the folder Data_Code/, constructed around two subfolders that contain tabular data and code notebooks generated with Mathematica (v13) for reproducing the university ecosystem analytics described in the two studies associated with this data deposit. Primary source records consist of: (i) metadata for individual research articles published by scholars affiliated with at least one of the focal universities in CA and TX, obtained from the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection; (ii) metadata for individual digital media articles mentioning each university (from the same set) by its official name at least once, were obtained from the Media Cloud project via its open-source API. Data files contained in this repository are summary statistics derived from preliminary calculations applied to the primary source data.

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