Title: Innovation research knowledge accumulation in leading actors: a bibliometric analysis approach

Authors: Alfonso Ávila-Robinson

Addresses: Tecnologico de Monterrey, EGADE Business School, Álvaro Obregón, Mexico City, Mexico

Abstract: Studies analysing relevant actors in the innovation research (IR) field have often relied on aggregated productivity and impact measures such as the total number of publications or citations. Owing to the high diversity inherent in innovation, such approaches have provided biased estimates of the role of actors in the development of IR knowledge. This study examines leading innovation actors based on their strength and directional patterns of IR knowledge accumulation. First, I collected IR-relevant publications to approximate the knowledge base supporting this field. Next, I extracted co-authors' affiliations from publications, as a proxy for identifying leading actors, and examined them through dimensions, such as publication and citation numbers and growth rates, cognitive foci, and collaboration schemes. These findings provide innovation researchers and practitioners with a better understanding of the IR field by presenting relevant actors, an actor classification based on their IR knowledge accumulation patterns, and factors influencing collaboration schemes.

Keywords: innovation research; actors/stakeholders; bibliometrics; knowledge accumulation; collaboration; research organisations; knowledge base; research productivity; research impact; cross-country analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTIP.2022.126845

International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, 2022 Vol.13 No.2, pp.164 - 190

Received: 23 Jun 2022
Accepted: 29 Aug 2022
Published online: 08 Nov 2022 *

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