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Sustainable Innovation: worldwide trends in the scientific production through a bibliometric study

  • Rosanna Cataldo
  • Corrado Crocetta
  • Maria Gabriella Grassia
  • Paolo Mazzocchi
  • Antonella Rocca
  • Claudio Quintano

The scientific production on the Innovation, especially on Sustainable Innovation, has grown in recent years. Various expressions and definitions for sustainability and innovation have been reported in the literature. Sometimes the two concepts are combined and described with one term, Sustainable Innovation. Research on sustainable innovation has grown in popularity due to the need to incorporate sustainability within business practices. The purpose of this study is to investigate the status and the evolution of the scientific studies on this topic and identify the worldwide trends in scientific production over time through a research conducted on the metadata of Web of Science, a database commonly used by researchers. A bibliometric analysis has been developed to analyse a total of 1,511 documents published between 2000 and 2021 in order to discover the research trends in this field and the main dimensions and words related to the term “Sustainable Innovation”.

  • Keywords:
  • Sustainable Innovation,
  • Bibliometrics analysis,
  • Bibliometrix,
  • Web of Science,
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Rosanna Cataldo

University of Naples Federico II, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6324-8252

Corrado Crocetta

University of Foggia, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9059-5092

Maria Gabriella Grassia

University of Naples Federico II, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-7128-7323

Paolo Mazzocchi

University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-6632-314X

Antonella Rocca

University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-8171-3149

Claudio Quintano

University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-8315-8476

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Chapter Title

Sustainable Innovation: worldwide trends in the scientific production through a bibliometric study

Authors

Rosanna Cataldo, Corrado Crocetta, Maria Gabriella Grassia, Paolo Mazzocchi, Antonella Rocca, Claudio Quintano

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English

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10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.10

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2021

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ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation

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BOOK OF SHORT PAPERS of the on-site conference

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Bruno Bertaccini, Luigi Fabbris, Alessandra Petrucci

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2021

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Firenze University Press

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