Recent Trends In Technological Innovation Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The research on technological innovation is an emerging trend. By utilizing bibliometric analysis this study investigates the researchers’ specific interests towards technological innovation research and forecasts future advancements. The study comprehends the expansion of technological innovation literature year-wise and delves deeper to find the top contributors, institutions, subject area and the journals in this field. The data were obtained from the database like Scopus for the period of 2008-2022. On the selected collection of 6976 and 500 no. of articles the analyses were performed in two stages by utilizing Microsoft Excel and VOSviewer software respectively .It has been explored that the author with greatest contribution to the study of technological innovation is Truffer B and ‘Sustainability of Switzerland’ is the highest contributing journal. The ‘Utrecht University’ of Netherlands as the most contributing institution and Social Science as the most contributing subject area is borne out in this particular analysis. Furthermore, a co-occurrence of keywords was conducted to understand the recent trends and this analysis yielded four clusters, namely, ‘environment and technological innovation system’, ‘energy efficiency and product innovation’, Climate change & environmental regulation’, ‘absorptive capacity and sustainability’ which are the expanding themes in technological innovation research for the years ahead.