Opinion: Where is OC in Creating Innovation Industries?

Ken Murphy, UCI assistant professor of teaching, The Paul Merage School of Business and others write, “Chapman University’s A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research has harnessed a team that includes scholars from both Chapman and UC Irvine to create a regional innovation indicator. … The indicator takes a quarterly snapshot of how Orange County is doing versus other tech hubs across the nation. … As a bonus, the “Chapman-UCI Innovation Indicator” will provide the first look at how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected innovation economies.”