Innovation research in India: A multidisciplinary literature review

摘要

The purpose of this research work is to study the progress of research on innovations in India and to outline and identify the key disciplines, journals, articles and authors. For this, the author studied the existing literature from the various fields in which innovations in Indian research work has been published using IS1 Web of Knowledge database. This paper finds that there is an increasing amount of research work on innovations in India and the bibliographical search resulted in three-hundred-ninety-eight documents and eight-hundred-eighty-eight authors; and were published in three-hundred-four different sources and classified in ninety-one multiple disciplines. The seven major disciplines and their underlying journals are business and economics, agriculture, public administration, education and educational research, psychology, plant sciences and social sciences-other topics account for the majority of publications. The most prolific journals measured by the number of research papers published are Economic and Political Weekly, World Development, Harvard Business Review, Technology Forecasting and Social Change and Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics.