Scientometric analysis on entrepreneurial skills - creativity, communication, leadership: How strong is the association?

Abstract

This study presents an overview of the status of publications related to creativity, communication, and leadership linked to entrepreneurship. A total of 9308 documents extracted from Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus have been evaluated from a global perspective. However, 3409 research articles, extracted from the WoS core collection, were reviewed in depth additionally using graph theory and text-to-network techniques. It considers the importance of the link between entrepreneurship and those elements considered skills by databases such as World Economic Forum (WEF), Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute (GEDI), and European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO). The real relevance of scientific papers was identified through analysis based on several tools—Google's Page Rank algorithm, VosWiever, Bibliometrix, and Biblioshiny—in various scientometric reviews. The main themes linked to the investigated concepts were identified in relation to the research objectives, allowing us to generate future research guidelines and proposals. The median year for publication is 2016; more than half of the publications by top authors between 2004 and 2022 were published after 2016. These insights allow us to highlight the growing interest in skills linked to entrepreneurship.