Abstract
In the past 20 years, there have been increasingly more studies on sustainable technology innovation (STI), possessing a significance for sustainable development. This paper aims to provide a research landscape, since the systematic understanding of STI is still inadequate. Through bibliometric analysis, it explores the literature distribution characteristics and the literature citation network. Based on the relevant literature data in the Web of Science (WOS), the study visually analyzes the development trend, topic distribution, burst literature, and co-citation network of the research literature, and extracts the evolution path of literature citation by using the main path analysis method. Through the analysis of co-citation and main path, 13 clusters in the co-citation network are found, which are further extracted as the main path network containing 82 nodes. Furthermore, this paper summarized the bibliometric landscape and discussed the frontier STI research topics. The comprehensive framework contributes to the understanding of STI themes and identifying future research agenda.
Highlights
With climate change accelerating, sustainable technology innovation (STI) is attracting more attention than ever before
We found two papers published by Boons et al [7] occupy the most core positions from the main path network, playing a transition role in the STI research and expanding the emerging research field of sustainable business model
Based on the literature data collected from the Web of Science (WOS) database, this study fully utilized the co-citation analysis, text mining, clustering, information visualization, and other functions of Citespace software, which analyzes the hotspot distribution and the evolution trend of STI topics
Summary
Sustainable technology innovation (STI) is attracting more attention than ever before. Recent extreme and unusual weather conditions, such as high temperatures in the Arctic Circle, have raised concerns about the ecological environment. The current development of technological innovation has little impact on the process of tackling climate change [1], it will take long-term research and development efforts to see tangible results. How to realize the sustainable development of society has become a common issue concerned by the whole society. Driven by the demand for sustainable development, the concept of STI has been formed and developed, which is a transdisciplinary research field, different from traditional technology innovation. STI needs to change the market structure through disruptive technology [2], otherwise there are very few opportunities to implement emission reduction
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