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Determining the drivers of global innovation under COVID-19: An FSQCA approach

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  • Zhenxing Gong
  • Yue Wang
  • Miaomiao Li

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During the COVID-19 epidemic, national innovation faced the challenges of high-risk research and development and intensified trade competition. How to allocate resources reasonably to promote national innovation has become a problem that must be solved. Based on the global innovation index (GII) framework, this study analyzes the influence of national innovation input elements (such as human capital resources, infrastructure, business maturity, etc.) on innovation output from the perspective of configuration, combining with the necessary condition analysis (NCA) and fuzzy set/qualitative comparative analysis (FSQCA). The research results show that:(1) A single innovation input constitutes the necessary condition and serves as a bottleneck for high innovation output;(2) ITT, HCR, IFT, MS and BS are all “multiple concurrent” and form different configurations, namely, two high-innovation and four nonhigh innovation configurations, that drive national innovation governance is characterized by “different roads leading to the same goals.” (3) As innovation is limited by the income levels of various countries, there are obvious differences in innovation drive paths between high- and low-income countries. Moreover, the configuration of asymmetric relationships with low-innovation output that occurs in high-income countries has unique characteristics. In this study, the influence of the coupling of national innovation input elements on innovation output is explored.

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  • Zhenxing Gong & Yue Wang & Miaomiao Li, 2024. "Determining the drivers of global innovation under COVID-19: An FSQCA approach," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(2), pages 1-15, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0295403
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295403
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