DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: TRENDS AND RESEARCH GAPS

This study aimed to analyze the panorama of the scientific production of digital entrepreneurship, seeking to identify the most researched authors and topics, verifying trends and validating new research opportunities. This is qualitative study, with descriptive and exploratory natures, which had the data collected in the Web of Science and selected by the Methodi Ordinatio. Data were treated from systematic and bibliometric analysis with the help of the VosViewer Software. Considering the evolution of digital entrepreneurship around the world, this research provided bibliometric and systematic views on the subject, providing a basis to produce future research. The results showed that, although there is a noticeable increase in interest in research, there are still great opportunities and challenges regarding digital entrepreneurship. Bibliometrics identified that studies on the subject are still dispersed and need new relational networks. The systematic analysis found that the theme explored is still inconclusive in its theoretical, methodological and empirical biases. The study contributes theoretically by concluding that the definition of the concept is still fragmented and lacks more unified theoretical investigations.