The evolution of university entrepreneurship over the past 20 years: a bibliometric analysis
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The evolution of university entrepreneurship over the past 20 years: a bibliometric analysis Ali Morovati Sharifabadi1 · Elham Mofateh Zadeh1 Received: 28 May 2020 / Revised: 20 October 2020 / Accepted: 21 October 2020 © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Abstract Today, university entrepreneurship has become an important issue in developed and developing countries, and much research has been done in this area that investigating the process of these researches contributes to the understanding and recognizing past trends as well as predicting and developing future of this field. The present study aimed to investigate the articles published in the field of university entrepreneurship between 2000 and 2019 with a bibliometric approach. The research population included all scientific articles (Article and Review) in the area of university entrepreneurship indexed on Scopus. Results included the identification of mostly cited articles, authors, institutions, leading countries, and mostly used keywords in the field. After gathering information from Scopus, graphical maps of co-citation, bibliographic coupling and co-occurrence have been drawn using VOSViewer software. The results showed that the process of published researches in the area of university entrepreneurship has been ascending in recent years such that the largest number of papers was related to 2019. Among countries, the USA was the most productive country, although most of the productive countries were located in Europe. University of Ghent (Belgium) was the most productive institute and Journal of Technology Transfer had the highest number of published articles; and keywords of “academic entrepreneurship”, “entrepreneurial university”, “technology transfer”, “entrepreneurship”, “university spin-offs” and “innovation” were the most commonly used keywords in university entrepreneurship articles. Finally, thematic clustering of most commonly used keywords has been performed. Keywords University entrepreneurship · Bibliometric · Citation analysis · Co-occurrence · Bibliographic couples
* Elham Mofateh Zadeh [email protected] Ali Morovati Sharifabadi [email protected] 1
Department of Management, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
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Entrepreneurship Education
Introduction The prevalence of unemployment has now become a global issue that needs us to refer to the creation of new businesses through entrepreneurship development. Entrepreneurship involves activities that reinforce mentality, attitudes, worldview, and individual and group skills of entrepreneurship in a wide range of educational methods aimed at nurturing and innovation (Arasti et al. 2012). One aspect of entrepreneurship is organizational entrepreneurship which creates an effective growth path for obtaining competitive advantage formally and informally through innovation in product, process or market and can affect productivity, performance, creation of new industries, and global competitiveness significantly and positively (Baruah and Ward 2015). Meanwhile, un
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