Interaction Activity Patterns in the Scientific Literature on Innovation Systems approach: A Bibliometric Analysis and Network Mapping Study

In recent decades, the Innovation System (IS) approach has generated attention and has been adopted as an analytical framework for studying innovation processes; this has been reflected in the large increase and constant growth of its scientific literature. However, few studies have been oriented to analyze it, which is of interest to understand the development and current state of research on the subject; and even fewer are those oriented to study the interaction activity that occurs in the flow and diffusion of knowledge. In response, this work performs a bibliometric analysis and mapping to explore the interaction activities between the countries involved in the production of literature, considering 7,605 documents retrieved from the Scopus database. The results of this work may be useful for several reasons, among them, to establish the organizational structure of countries in IS literature and its evolution, as well as to identify some effects regarding interaction activity on research.