| Sumario: | Both practitioners and scholars want to understand factors (antecedents) that influence, make possible and inspire implementation of innovation in government. Antecedents identify conditions preceding implementation of innovations. Although not identifying causation as such, antecedents shared among innovations reflect situations that have encouraged innovation. Major (most frequently mentioned) antecedents were identified in a systematic literature review (SLR) of adoption (66) and trailblazing (21) policy innovation peer-reviewed publications. The SLR's 87 documents found 594 antecedents, 508 of them unique, a large variety and diverse range (Glor, 2021b, d). The SLR's most mentioned antecedents are examined in all 183 Government of Saskatchewan (GoS), Canada, trailblazing innovations implemented 1971-82 to see whether they were also found in the GoS population. Using these two large public innovation antecedent databases (SLR, new GoS antecedent database), their antecedent findings are compared. These data on the antecedents of public innovation are compared four ways. In Model 1, major SLR antecedents are identified in the GoS innovations, ranked in proportion of mentions, and the SLR and GoS rankings are compared. This determines whether and to what extent they share major antecedents and in what order. The SLR and GoS share eight of nine major SLR antecedents but they rank differently. The SLR ranked three internal-to-government antecedents as most important (innovation process, problem/creativity/ideas, internal structure), the GoS ranked two. In the GoS, the most important antecedents are, in order, internal structure, external context, and problem/creativity/ideas. Model 2 distinguishes adoption and trailblazing antecedents in the SLR, then compares the results to each other and to the GoS trailblazing antecedents. In SLR trailblazing innovation, political antecedents rank higher than in GoS. Model 3 examines the relevance of SLR antecedents in GoS, finding that they rank the same as in Model 1. Model 4 explores the differences within the GoS' major SLR antecedents by comparing their proportion of mentions to the GoS mean and distinguishing higher-ranked (above the mean) and lower-ranked (below the mean) major antecedents. Overall, while all but one major antecedent identified in the SLR were found in the GoS, they ranked differently in importance.
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