Towards sustainable innovation: a systematic literature review

The great strength that organisations must consider when implementing innovation is their impact on the environment, social or economic consequences. Crises in climate, biodiversity, and energy are critical to deal with on local as well as global scales. It must be stressed that organisations operate in an economy that relies on human resources, which is a key asset of companies that can provide a significant competitive advantage by creating innovations. Research has indicated a need for bridging the scientific gap in the research field of responsible and sustainable innovation. There are claims that a quantitative and systematic way of studying this problem is not found in the literature and draw attention to the fact that researchers should consider analysing 'sustainable innovation' from a global perspective. This paper aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of sustainable innovations' topic and to capture trends in the description of this issue.