The state of “Innovation” and “Entrepreneurship” in India - A Post Pandemic Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Indeed, "Innovation" has become the most sought-after term in the decade. “Entrepreneurship” is the second one to follow. Despite this, many organisations still struggle to define both of these phrases. Many authors have emphasised that innovation is a process and a mindset, not merely a concept [1]. The term "Entrepreneurship" was also misinterpreted at first. The researchers concentrated their efforts on finding persons in society who run successful businesses. However, scholars gradually shifted their emphasis to the intersection between innovative individuals and the possibilities they possessed, focusing on successful businessmen [2]. In the classical work of entrepreneurship, J. Cunningham mentioned that despite being the most interesting word, we still do not understand entrepreneurs [3]. During and after the covid-19 epidemic, the entire globe witnessed a total change in organizational procedures and operations. The necessity of the hour was to investigate how researchers and academics saw the covid-19 epidemic in terms of innovation and entrepreneurship. In the post-pandemic era, it was widely acknowledged and known that these disruptions would produce breakthroughs and lead to inventive enterprises. This paper is an attempt to bibliometrically analyze the state of entrepreneurship and innovation in the post-pandemic research artefacts. 78 research papers published in the year 2020 & 21 selected exclusively from Scopus Indexed Journals were considered in this study. The paper will analyze the co-authorship, co-occurrence, citation, bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis of all these papers.