Abstract
Traditionally, organizations rely on their internal resources for innovation projects, right from idea generation and initial research and development, until implementation and commercialization processes. Nevertheless, organizations have come to recognize that they cannot rely solely on their internal resources to drive innovation, mostly due to the growing mobility of knowledge workers, shifts in customer preferences, budgetary limitations, and other internal and external challenges. They have started to work collaboratively with consumers, vendors, higher learning institutions, and other stakeholders in their innovation journey. Owing to the potential benefits it offers, collaborative innovation has not only attracted interest not only from practitioners and industry players, but also from academia. However, despite the development of research related to collaborative innovation, studies looking into research trends within this evolving area of study are still lacking. Therefore, this paper performed bibliometric analysis to provide insights into the scientific research on collaborative innovation. Drawing from a collection of 375 articles extracted from the Scopus database, descriptive analysis and clustering analysis were performed using Microsoft Excel and the Biblioshiny application to discover and visualize the evolution of research within this field. Several trends relating to productivity, citation, and research trends and clusters were identified. These findings provide important input towards understanding the nature of collaborative innovation research and future direction within this research field.
Keywords: Collaborative Innovation, Bibliometric Analysis, Biblioshiny, Scopus.