Intellectual framework for knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship

The knowledge-intensive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems literature is evolving in quantity and popularity in academia. Assuming that the studies on these themes are closely related and are still under development, this research seeks to determine how the intellectual framework of knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship (KIE) is framed. The goal is to map bibliographic production by referring to the knowledge-intensive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. We adopted the bibliometric method of citation and cocitation to analyze scientific publications from 2010 to 2020 in journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database. An exploratory factor analysis identified three clusters by stimulating the creation of new ventures and knowledge flow and sharing. The first cluster alludes to the impact of knowledge on economic activities; the second explores the entrepreneurial ecosystem; and the third is more heterogeneous and leads to the theoretical and critical aspects of KIE. This study provides an opportunity to analyze the relationship between knowledge-intensive innovation and the entrepreneurship ecosystem. Thus, this study may guide researchers to access the microfoundations of knowledge-intensive innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems in their future studies once it reveals seminal research on this specific domain.