Affiliation:
1. FGBOU VO «Voronezhskiy gosudarstvennyy lesotehnicheskiy universitet imeni G.F. Morozova»
2. Voronezh State Agricultural University after Emperor Peter the Great
3. Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov
Abstract
Innovation is gaining more and more attention in the scientific community, and the study of innovation processes has become an advanced field of scientific and practice-oriented research. This article provides a systematic literature review of journal articles on innovation in forestry and the forestry industry. We include international, English-language, peer-reviewed scientific articles included in the scientific databases Scopus and Web of Science since the 1980s. Our search for articles that specifically mention “innovation/innovation” and “forest/timber/timber” from a social science perspective resulted in 230 studies. Our analysis provides a quantitative overview of institutional contexts, scientific fields, methods and thematic areas. Based on qualitative content analysis, we also describe the historical development of the research area, summarize the main ideas on central research topics at the firm and system level, and illustrate the state of knowledge in selected areas of innovation. In general, established concepts and approaches based on innovation research are well accepted in forest sector innovation research, although new trends could be used more progressively. The articles analyzed use a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods and are dominated by country and (sub) sectoral case studies. A greater variety of methods could enrich the knowledge base, and more cross-country and sectoral benchmarking could confirm previous findings.
Publisher
Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies named after G.F. Morozov
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science
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