Sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation: a bibliometric mapping of global research digital trends

This research contributes to sustainable entrepreneurship research by mapping the intellectual origins, development and inclusive theoretical and practical implications of the field in a systematic way. It uses a thorough bibliometric study of 381 peer-reviewed articles in the Web of Science to determine the important themes, key authors, and new research trends. It combines three key research areas: sustainable development, social innovation, and green entrepreneurship, and makes an exact point of the disruptive nature of digital transformation in the creation of the new entrepreneurial ecosystems and the new scalable business models. The study also highlights new research directions, such as microfinance, the circular economy, and AI-driven sustainability, which indicate a deep transformation toward technology-driven and impact-based innovations. In addition to systems identification, the research shows the interfaces of intellectual networks between basic theories and interdisciplinary studies, signalling a pivotal movement between theory and reality. The study is important because it channels the various streams of research and shows the multidimensionality of sustainable entrepreneurship in different domains - social, organizational and technological - around the world.