Abstract
This paper examines the evolution of research in Entrepreneurship published in Web of Science, a reference database. A bibliometric content analysis has been carried out as part of this investigation, allowing for a longitudinal study of the main research topics dealt with over time, ranging from classic topics such as its conception to more recent realities that include Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship. This paper locates research trends by studying the evolution of citations and by incorporating use metrics. The results point to the existence of seven cognitive fronts that have marked the field’s growth and conceptual evolution. Furthermore, evidence is presented that shows how innovation has historically been the thread that links all the core themes. The topics and trends detected contribute specially to advancing the current discussion on entrepreneurship and coordinating future research efforts.
Highlights
Research into the structure of scientific fields is a topic that attracts the attention of the scientific community, as it helps to provide the basis for future advances and allows for the generation of new understanding built on the basis of pre-existing knowledge
The research presented complements this initiative by suggesting an alternative methodological proposal that focuses on the issues that have marked the evolution of entrepreneurship and helps to locate future research trends
Progress is being made towards global approaches that include the role of the context in which entrepreneurship develops and emerge [6] and systems of entrepreneurship [7] that aim to unite the focus of the innovation system and entrepreneurship studies [6]
Summary
Research into the structure of scientific fields is a topic that attracts the attention of the scientific community, as it helps to provide the basis for future advances and allows for the generation of new understanding built on the basis of pre-existing knowledge. [1] presented the results of a survey to researchers with experience in entrepreneurship focused on the most important thematic areas and those methods especially useful for advancing the understanding of entrepreneurship. The research presented complements this initiative by suggesting an alternative methodological proposal that focuses on the issues that have marked the evolution of entrepreneurship and helps to locate future research trends. For this purpose, a documentary corpus representative of the discipline is studied and bibliometric methods of content analysis (co-word) are applied to use the documents and their words to describe the evolution and current status of entrepreneurship. Progress is being made towards global approaches that include the role of the context in which entrepreneurship develops and emerge (entrepreneurial ecosystems) [6] and systems of entrepreneurship [7] that aim to unite the focus of the innovation system and entrepreneurship studies [6]
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