A meta analysis of the innovation issue: Based on the technology management field

Technology management is an emerging discipline in social science, which not only has high complexity, but also combines multiple knowledge systems. What have been the major issues of technology management during the past two decades? Which one issue is the core issue of technology management? If we look at the journals which were published after 1980, including Research Policy, Technovation, IJTM, IJIM, we find the word ¿Innovation¿ was appeared frequently appears in the titles of papers and the names of the journals. That means ¿innovation¿ is a very important issue of technology management. This paper uses meta analysis to examine the literature about the innovation issue in the technology management field, and to achieve the following two objectives: 1. finding the major journals devoted to innovation issues; and 2. analyzing the basic profile of innovation literatures. Finally, this paper provides the basis for two future studies at the end of this paper.