基层政府如何培育新产业？既有研究关注基层在“强激励”下的“（典型）产业打造”行为。本文以L镇电商产业为例指出，政府内部的激励结构并非“整齐划一”：强激励下的产业发展通常由领导班子“引领性干预”，弱激励下的产业发展则由边缘部门“自主探索”。弱激励结构为基层创新提供超越“激励悖论”的制度条件，使其能够在长期摸索中以较低成本解决问题，并为产业发展带来“意外的收获”。本文将这种产业打造行为概括为“弱激励创新”，为理解“激励与政府行为”的议题提供新思路。

How do grassroots governments cultivate new industries? Existing research focuses on the behavior of "typical industry building" under "strong incentives" at the grassroots level. This paper takes the e-commerce industry in Town L as an example and finds that the development of this industry does not conform to the logic of building typical industries. This is because the internal incentive structure within the grassroots government is not uniform and aligned. Under strong incentives, the development of industry is usually led by the leadership team and the main functional departments through "leading interventions", while under weak incentives, the development is explored autonomously by peripheral departments. This paper refines the latter's industry-building behavior as "weak-incentive innovation". The weak incentive structure provides institutional conditions beyond the " incentive paradox” for the innovation of the above-mentioned objects. Grassroots governments can solve problems at a lower cost through long-term exploration, avoid falling into the "inefficient operation—changing industries” inertial cycle and bring "unexpected gains” to the development of industries. Weak incentive innovation provides a new perspective for understanding the issue of "incentives and government behavior".

本文为南开大学亚洲研究中心资助课题“数字时代的地方政府创新机制研究”（AS2419）的阶段性成果。

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