Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Key Insights from a Multidisciplinary Review of Big Data and Blockchain Literature

Abstract

Big data and blockchain technology are critical enablers of innovation and entrepreneurship. These technologies provide entrepreneurs access to valuable data insights and new business ways, enabling them to create new products and services, identify new markets and opportunities, and develop more effective marketing strategies. In this paper, the scientometric analysis method is used to systematically search the Web of Science (WoS) database and a total of 221 research papers retrieved from 1900 to 2023 are selected. Based on the analysis and visualization of the results using Vosviewer and Bibliometrix software. The results show that this research topic has shown rapid growth since 2017, and there are three groups of keywords, including entrepreneurship, and value & creation, and dynamic & capabilities, which correspond to the most research contributions. Among the subject countries, China, Italy, and the United Kingdom are the most important in this field.