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Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review

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In the last two decades, technology entrepreneurship, involving two established but related fields, entrepreneurship, and technology-based innovation, attracted researchers and policymakers’ interest due to the recognized positive effect on economic development. Considering technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship as the main forces to achieve sustainable development at different levels of the economy and society, it is vital to assess and develop the ability to synergetic create these forces. Based on the importance of technology entrepreneurship and innovation in actual research trends, this research aims to develop a systematic literature review to analyze the existing articles that approach technology entrepreneurship and innovation and summarize their findings. The 73 articles reviewed were obtained through a search in the Web of Science database and used in a bibliographic-coupling analysis with VOSviewer software. The results enable the categorization of the existing literature revealing four clusters, namely, (1) venture financing, (2) factors of influence, (3) new technology ventures, and (4) importance of policies, location, and entrepreneurial surroundings. This study presents direct implications for the literature in TE and innovation, systematizing the existing studies and addressing the need for a systematic literature review that approaches both concepts simultaneously. It provides a framework that enables the scientific community to access the main subjects discussed and the articulation between concepts. It also presents a future research agenda.

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Patrício, L.D., Fernandes, C. (2023). Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Guarda, T., Fernandes, C., Augusto, M.F. (eds) Technology, Business, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Industry 4.0. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17960-0_13

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