Identifying the intellectual scientific basis of the Technology and Innovation Management area

Abstract

Last decades observed a considerable increase of literature devoted to innovation-related studies. This area is characterized by fruitful interdisciplinary and there is not a single discipline that embraces all aspects of innovation. From the analysis of nearly 60.000 references, included in the 1442 articles published in the area' seed journal, we concluded that Economy is the area that most contributed to feed the flow of knowledge in innovation - about a third of the references were made to articles published in top journals of Economics. Moreover, the most influential authors are associated with the evolutionary approach (e.g.,Richard R. Nelson) and to the European approach to innovation (e.g., Keith Pavitt and Chris Freeman).