EquityNet Knowledge Base

The EquityNet Knowledge Base is a proprietary database of empirical correlations that relate endogenous (internal) and exogenous (external) enterprise risk factors (attributes) with the probability of enterprise success. Based on combined research that includes over 500,000 cases of enterprise success and failure, the Knowledge Base contains statistical reference risk correlations that are segmented by and are specific to risk each industry sector. Due to the large empirical base established by this combined research, the Knowledge Base enables the Risk Quantification System (RQS) to consider 30 or more enterprise risk factors in computing the probability of success, the number of which depends on the size and maturity of the enterprise.

The Knowledge Base allows for new information to be incorporated as ongoing correlation development identifies new risk factors or changes to existing risk factors. The RQS is designed to accommodate advancements in the Knowledge Base and, as a result, to accommodate and account for structural changes in the endogenous and exogenous (i.e., systematic and unsystematic) risk factors that affect enterprise failure and success. Over time, this capability allows for the Knowledge Base to evolve with changing conditions and improved knowledge.

See Research Studies to view samples of 3rd party research literature related to private enterprise risk.

Also check back for EquityNet’s co-authored literature review on private enterprise risk (currently a work in process).