Estado da arte da produção científica sobre indicadores e índices de inovação

Innovation management is a challenge for organizations that aim to be competitive. When implementing a management process, the ability to measure what is to be managed is very important as it is the explanation of the strategic model of the innovation. The use of indicators allows verifying the development of the organizations or the development of each one of the regions individually, or in comparison to each other. Identifying indicators for innovation is crucial and there are several tools to help in this process, such as the patent statistics and R&D. This paper presents a bibliometric review wich aims to map the scientific production about Innovation Indicators. We have analysed 107 scientific articles from 209 authors working for 115 different institutions in 35 countries. Results show that the first article was published in 1973, and the number of publications tends to increase with time. The majority of the articles are published in journals and Europe is the region that counts the largest number of authors, followed by China, Brazil and the United States.