Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development Goals: a bibliometric analysis

This research maps the research on Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals. The proposed bibliometric analysis is based on a total number of 102 scientific articles published in journals indexed in WoS and Scopus between 2015 and 2020. In addition, for the selected manuscripts we study the creation of networks via bibliographic coupling analysis. The results highlight that since 2018 research on this topic has increased progressively. Also, inter-university collaborations are especially relevant among scholars from Germany, Spain and the United States. The dynamics of the most frequently used words point to Sustainable Development Goals and sustainable entrepreneurship. From the content analysis we have defined 6 characteristic criteria of sustainable entrepreneurship which are necessary to achieve the 2030 Agenda in a functional way.