Ideas for innovation: a systematic mapping of the literature

Abstract

This paper attempts to map the specific literature in order to seek better understanding of the current situation on research related to ideas for innovation, enabling to identify how authors treat the activity of managing ideas in the innovation process. In this sense, we adopted a methodological procedure, held from a systematic search, to review the literature on the subject - ideas in the context of innovation. We used the Scopus, Engineering Village, Web of Science and EBSCO databases. As a result, we obtained a corpus of 241 publications, in which we initially identified key articles, authors, countries, and journals that have published more on the subject, and the most frequently used keywords. Subsequently, based on the analysis of these articles, it was possible to perform a taxonomic classification for sort them according to their main focus of research. The taxonomy used consists of management models of ideas; generation and enrichment of ideas; sources of ideas; evaluation and selection of ideas; storage of ideas; sharing of ideas; computational tools for the management of ideas; factors of influence on the management of ideas.

Keywords:
Innovation; Front end of innovation; Innovation ideas