Welcome to the Innovation Index Research Database, the source for technology-based economic development trend data for US States.

Economic growth theory predicts that economic output is a function of capital and labor inputs, and that this function is influenced by advances in technology.  Measures of real world activity can be used to estimate the Economic Output, Capital, Labor, and Technology variables.  Econometric methodology then translates theory into an equation that can be tested with statistical analyses and inference to evaluate how well data from real world economies fit the model.  Trend data are needed for most statistical analyses and hypothesis tests.

State-level data for technology-related economic variables are difficult to compile because they are located in various databases or require calculations to derive appropriate measures.  Significant time and effort are required to first locate and then download and prepare these data for analyses.