Configuring Creativity: Promoting Cultural Inheritance-Based Innovation in Heritage Tourism Destinations

This study focused on how various factors within innovation systems contribute to cultural inheritance-based innovation in heritage tourism destinations from configuration and system perspectives. The findings reveal that the collaborative efforts of governments, businesses, and public conditions are critical to cultural inheritance-based innovation, although none alone is necessary. This study identifies two driving and three inhibiting paths of cultural inheritance-based innovation. It emphasizes the interdependence of destination innovation management and social participation in innovation with a supportive role of enterprise social capital and moral norms of cultural preservation. This study contributes new configurations and systematic insights into cultural innovation in tourism destinations. Furthermore, it identifies multiple causal relationships between cultural inheritance-based innovation and its antecedents to enrich the theoretical and practical understanding of innovation systems.