Bischoff, Thore Sören; Runst, Petrik; Bizer, Kilian - 2023
Previous studies have found that generalized trust positively affects innovation at the country and regional level. We … extend this literature by arguing that there are four reasons to believe that the trust-innovation relationship is … heterogeneous across geographic space. First, there is a saturation effect where regions in the lower half of the trust distribution …