DEVELOPMENT OF OPEN INNOVATION THROUGHOUT THE YEARS. A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Open innovation has gained more and more interest from the research community in the past years as it is a method for companies to develop products and services using external knowledge along with internal information. This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the academic research on open innovation from when it appeared. Based on the data from web of Science, a science mapping and performance analysis are performed in terms of co-citations, occurrences of keyword, bibliographic coupling and citations. Additionally, the retrieved data are classified under the most relevant research in terms of journals, articles, authors and institutions.