Management of the digital economy in higher education: trends and future perspectives

The innovation of higher education ensures that content and technologies are sustainable and consistent with the design of digital education. The digital economy in higher education links the economy based on advances and digital applications with the purpose of the university teaching and learning process. In this order, the purpose of management is to communicate a series of instructions that improve the education system with a digital economy that meets the trends of its development. In the last five years, more than half of the contributions have been made regarding the involvement of the digital economy in higher education. This circumstance derives mainly from advances in research as a result of the development of technologies. This work aims to analyze trends in higher education as a result of the economics of digital processes and thus define the issues that give rise to the greatest interest in this field of research. Thus, in order to recognize new disciplines and the evolution of this area of interest, the networks have been identified by co-authorship of the main authors, institutions and countries, and the network of keywords by co-occurrence, through the application of the bibliometric method and visualization techniques.