Open Innovation: A Bibliometric Analysis During The Period 2003-2024

The open innovation paradigm refers to a multi-dimensional and multi-stakeholder process that has emerged especially in the last quarter century and includes efforts to use knowledge inputs and outputs to accelerate internal innovation and expand markets to enable external use of innovation. Innovation has become more important day by day, innovation times have increased day by day in all sectors and all products, and the increase in costs caused by this has gradually increased the need for open innovation and the efforts in this field. As a natural result of this process, academic studies on open innovation have increased gradually in the last quarter century and have shown rapid development, especially in the last decade.In this study, publications related to Web of Science (WOS) were examined through a bibliometric analysis. In order to examine the structure of the literature in the study, studies published in the field of business and management related to the keyword open innovation in the Web of Science (WoS) database were examined and according to these criteria, 3260 publications covering the period 2003-2024 were obtained and analyzed in the Bibliometrix R package. The findings reveal that the number of studies conducted especially in 2010 and later exceeded single-digit numbers and this increase doubled in 2016 and later, showing a rapid increase trend. Approximately 71% (2315) of the 3260 studies examined in the analysis period were published in 2016 and later. The findings reveal that academic interest in the subject is increasing day by day. In addition, analyses were conducted using various criteria such as the journal in which the publications were published, index, country, citation level, year of publication, authors and number of authors.