Innovation in Brazilian scientific production in management and business: bibliometric mapping in the Web of Science and Scopus databases

Abstract

Innovation is widely disseminated as a mechanism capable of promoting the development of society through the creation of new technological devices and improvement of techniques used today. In Brazil, the topic gained legal status with the publication of Law 10,973, of December 2, 2004 (Law of Innovation), and from there mechanisms for a series of public and private investments. In this perspective, the present study aimed to assess what is the impact on Brazilian scientific production on innovation and business regarding innovation after the implementation of that law. Therefore, a bibliometric study with the search string “TS = (Innovation *) AND CU = BRA? Il *” was used in a period from 2005 to 2019 in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The study showed an increase in research on the theme, breaking numbers between 2 and 7 in 2005 to numbers like 230 and 288 in 2018, in Scopus and Web of Science, respectively. Among the areas of publication, it was evident that the areas of management and business concentrate the largest share of publications, with the majority being published in article format on both platforms. The institution that stood out the most in the study was the University of São Paulo (USP), being the one that most published in both databases. It was also observed that the magazines that publish the most on the topic are Espacios and Geintec, with the professor at the UNIFBV / Wyden University Center Eliana Andrea Severo and the professor at USP Felipe Mendes Borini being the Brazilian researchers who most stand out in the area, with 21 and 15 publications, in Scopus and Web of Science, respectively. However, among the studies most cited by Brazilian researchers, there was still a predominance of the use of international references, and the publications most cited by Brazilian studies in both databases are of international authorship, even with Brazilian collaboration in specific cases. The study, therefore, evidenced the growing interest on the theme after the enactment of the Innovation Law, and which has institutions that produce a lot on the theme, but it also evidenced the need for Brazilian researchers to use international sources to support their studies.