Municipalities, Innovation and Resilience

The focus of this paper lies on the potential of innovations carried out at the municipal level during crises to strengthen their resilience. It aims at understanding innovation-based mechanisms and their contribution to local resilience better. Examples of municipal innovations performed during the COVID-19 crisis are considered. This allows drawing some observations making the link between municipal innovations and local resilience to crises. The paper concludes with a research agenda linking municipal innovations and local resilience.