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- Title
How does municipal governance structure affect innovation and knowledge diffusion? Evidence from U.S. metro areas.
- Authors
Wagner, Gary A.; Komarek, Timothy M.
- Abstract
As declining state and federal aid forces regional governments to become more self-reliant, there is new interest in understanding factors that support regional resilience to economic and natural disasters. Using a sample of 365 metropolitan statistical areas, we examine one such factor: how regional government fragmentation shapes patented innovation, a known mechanism for bolstering resilience. While we find no evidence that the number of general-purpose governments (per capita) impact regional innovation, we do find that regions with a higher density of special-purpose governments have less inclusive innovation. This is true in terms both of who does the inventing and what is invented. Previous research links higher numbers of special-purpose government units to weaker economic performance; our results suggest higher numbers may also hinder regions' abilities to adapt to disruptions.
- Subjects
DIFFUSION of innovations; STANDARD metropolitan statistical areas; FEDERAL aid; GOVERNMENT aid; ECONOMIC indicators; PER capita; METROPOLITAN areas
- Publication
Economics of Governance, 2023, Vol 24, Issue 3, p287
- ISSN
1435-6104
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10101-022-00286-x