Twenty Years of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The present study attempts to provide a bibliometric analysis of the research conducted on entrepreneurship and innovation. Utilising the Scopus database, a total of 1,103 papers, published from the year 1999 to 2018, have been analysed in this study. A classification of these papers is presented further on the basis of important journals, papers with maximum citations, year-wise publication trends, subject-wise distribution, most productive countries and institutions, and eminent authors. Further, the VOSviewer software is utilised for providing a co-authorship analysis, international collaboration patterns, keywords co-occurrences analysis, co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling analysis. The results show that the research on this area has been rapidly growing; the maximum papers have been contributed by developed countries such as the USA, UK and China. Furthermore, the most cited paper is about entrepreneurship, innovation and economic growth, and the maximum research has been carried out in the subject areas of business, management and accounting.