 Cultural Diversity and Innovation: An Empirical Study from DialectHuiting Hu, Gangning Yu, Xueli Xiong, Lijia Guo and Jiashun Huang Technology in Society, 2022, vol. 69, issue C Abstract: The relationship between culture and innovation has long been a concern for policymakers and scholars. Based on the perspective of cultural diversity, this study uses Chinese dialects to represent culture, and takes advantage of empirical methods to explore the influence of cultural diversity on city's innovation. Using regression models to analyse the relationship between dialect diversity and innovation, we find that the impact of dialect on city's innovation is significantly negative. To explore the mechanism, we consider the factors of external resources and education investment. We find that external resources could reduce the adverse impact of dialect on innovation. Furthermore, we find that education investment could also diminish the adverse impact of dialect on innovation. This study suggests that government should attach importance to education and increase external resources to alleviate the negative impact exerted by cultural diversity on city's innovation capabilities. Keywords: Cultural diversity; Innovation; Dialect (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:teinso:v:69:y:2022:i:c:s0160791x2200080x DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.101939 Access Statistics for this article Technology in Society is currently edited by Charla Griffy-Brown More articles in Technology in Society from Elsevier |
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