A trend analysis of innovation issue: TECHNOVATION 1995–2009

Technology Management, which only has high complexity but also combines multiple knowledge systems, is an emerging discipline in social science. What have been the major issues confronting technology management during the past two decades? Which issue is at the core of technology management? We can say that “innovation” is a very important and critical issue in technology management. Academic papers have discussed many kinds of innovation during these two decades. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the trend development of innovation issue. TECHNOVATION journal serves as the main source of this study. This journal is an international academic journal which was published since 1981 and discussed the issues around technological innovation, entrepreneurship and technology management. TECHNOVATION also have a higher impact factor in the SSCI. This study analyzed 273 papers in TECHNOVATION from 1995 to 2009. All of these papers contained “innovation” in the keywords field. This paper analyzed the distribution across years, nations, and authors, and discussed the research methodologies, domain industries, and the relevant innovation issues. The results present 7 conclusions and summarize the profiles of innovation literature which were published in TECHNOVATION during the past 15 years. These profiles can help scholars find new materials or directions more efficiently in the future study. However, some suggestions were proposed which can modify this paper more clearly.