Design, innovation, and rural creative places: Are the arts the cherry on top, or the secret sauce?

• Timothy R. Wojan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: twojan@ers.usda.gov

  Affiliation Rural Economy Branch, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9863-1457

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• Bonnie Nichols

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Office of Research and Analysis, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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