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Record W4410580616 · doi:10.3138/cpp.2024-047

Identifying and Predicting Nascent High-Growth Firms Using Machine Learning

2025· article· fr· W4410580616 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
Ryan J. MacDonald

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Public Policy · 2025
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicFirm Innovation and Growth
Canadian institutionsStatistics CanadaBank of Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMachine learningArtificial intelligenceComputer science

Abstract

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La prédiction des entreprises qui connaîtront une croissance rapide, et les raisons pour lesquelles elles le font, fait l'objet de recherches depuis de nombreuses décennies. Les chercheurs explorent l'utilisation de techniques d'apprentissage machine supervisées (modèle de filet élastique, forêt d'arbres décisionnels et filet neuronal) pour trouver une population embryonnaire d'entreprises à forte croissance (EFC) dans les données administratives canadiennes des entreprises dérivées de dossiers fiscaux anonymisés. Le vaste ensemble de variables comprend des indicateurs de l'industrie, de la géographie et de la complexité (p. ex., de multiples activités industrielles), de même que la propriété étrangère. Même si environ une entreprise sur huit de l'ensemble de l’échantillon deviendra une EFC, la méthodologie fait ressortir un sous-échantillon d'environ 25 % à 30 % de cette dimension, c'est-à-dire qu'une sur quatre parviendra à ce statut et que trois résultats sur quatre seront faussement positifs. Les variables de l'industrie sont d'une importance manifeste sur le plan des prédictions, tout comme les variables indicatrices d'entreprises plus petites et (particulièrement) plus jeunes. Cependant, les chercheurs conseillent de ne pas interpréter l'analyse comme causale.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.965
Threshold uncertainty score0.070

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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