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The primary aim of this paper is to assess the contribution to the international literature of Spanish scientific production in the research stream of innovation and technology management. For this purpose 72 articles published in the last decade in the most prestigious international journals in this research stream have been evaluated. From this analysis we have concluded that there has been a positive evolution from 1995 to the present time, as much from a qualitative as from a quantitative point of view. Likewise, we have found that research in this research stream is concentrated fundamentally on a reduced group of universities. Nevertheless, these do not focus exclusively on one or a few research subjects, but on a wide range thereof.
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Junquera, B., Mitre, M. Value of bibliometric analysis for research policy: A case study of Spanish research into innovation and technology management. Scientometrics 71, 443–454 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1689-9
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