International Journal of
Innovation, Management and Technology

Abstract

In recent decades, the Innovation System (IS)approach has generated attention and has been adopted as ananalytical framework for studying innovation processes; thishas been reflected in the large increase and constant growth ofits scientific literature. However, few studies have been orientedto analyze it, which is of interest to understand the developmentand current state of research on the subject; and even fewer arethose oriented to study the interaction activity that occurs in theflow and diffusion of knowledge. In response, this workperforms a bibliometric analysis and mapping to explore theinteraction activities between the countries involved in theproduction of literature, considering 7,605 documents retrievedfrom the Scopus database. The results of this work may beuseful for several reasons, among them, to establish theorganizational structure of countries in IS literature and itsevolution, as well as to identify some effects regardinginteraction activity on research.