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Exploration of the effects of transparency, democracy, wealth, diversity and group cohesiveness on national innovation Karen Lin Mahar (9813815) Innovation management Strategy National Innovation Innovation Strategy Transparency Democracy Wealth Social Capital Group Cohesiveness Gini Coefficient <p dir="ltr">Variables such as transparency, diversity, group cohesiveness, and democracy, have a relationship with performance in innovation at a group level. </p><p dir="ltr">This study explores if group level variables of innovation have a relationship on a national level. The importance of innovative output as a means to a firm-level or nation-level competitive edge, is a core motivator in economic development. This thesis uses a quantitative and hypothesis-driven approach grounded in existing theoretical and empirical work at organisational and group-level studies of innovation and creativity. Secondary datasets from global research institutions (with a sample of 139 nations) have been utilised to support statistical modelling using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). </p><p dir="ltr">The findings indicate that there is a negative relationship between national innovation and diversity, a novel result in context of current literature on innovation and diversity but confirms that variables associated with innovative performance at a group level – notably; transparency, democracy, wealth, social capital, group cohesiveness and Gini Coefficient apply at national level. The results have implications both at a national level for policy makers but also translated back to smaller group units such as businesses and organisations, demonstrating how managers and policymakers can create group and organisational conditions to foster innovation.</p> 2026-09-16T05:00:41Z Dataset Dataset 10.25946/33769987.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Exploration_of_the_effects_of_transparency_democracy_wealth_diversity_and_group_cohesiveness_on_national_innovation/33769987 CC BY 4.0