Citation
This data was used in the following paper, which should be cited when using this dataset: Armanios D, Lanahan L, Yu D (2020) Varieties of Local Government Experimentation: U.S. State-led Technology-Based Economic Development Policies, 2000 - 2015. Academy of Management Discoveries 6(2):266-299, https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amd.2018.0014. This ORA link should also be cited when using this data source as well.

Economic Indicators dataset
This is publicly-available data aggregated by state-year of gross state product per capita (Bureau of Economic Analysis - BEA), high-tech firm births (U.S. Census Survey of U.S. Business Statistics – SUSB; only up to 2014 during our window of analysis); and annual patents (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office – USPTO). The data comes as common-separated values (economic_indicators_00_15.csv) as well as in various versions of Stata (economic_indicators_00_15.old.dta and economic_indicators_00_15.dta)

SGE Raw Dataset
All 1,744 state-led actions – as with Armanios, Lanahan, Yu, 2020 (https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2018.0014), we strongly recommend to use actions from 2000-2015 (N=1,659 state actions). The reason is that from 1996-1999, SSTI officials noted they were still calibrating their mechanisms for capturing novel TBED experimentation. Actions after 2015 are also less complete as they were near the time when we scraped the data. That said in case a researcher wants to follow-up on state actions prior to 2000 (beginning in 1996 when the Digest began) or after 2015 (we scraped up to 2017), we make those available in this raw dataset. We also provide the relevant article title and link from each state action in case other researchers would like to try out their own coding schemes for characterizing government experimentation.  The data comes as common-separated values (SSTI_rawdata.csv) as well as in various versions of Stata (SSTI_rawdata_old.dta and SSTI_rawdata.dta).

SGE State-Year Dataset
This takes all state-led actions from the SGE Raw Dataset and tabulates them by state-year. The data comes as common-separated values (policycount_yr_st.csv) as well as in various versions of Stata (policycount_yr_st.old.dta and policycount_yr_st.dta). 

Replication Files
We provide the STATA do-files to replicate the tables and figures from Armanios, Lanahan, and Yu 2020. These are the do files to replicate Figures and Tables 5-6 (Figures and Table 5-6.do) and Table 3 (Table3.do).