Barriers to Innovation a Systematic Literature Review.

Abstract

The objective of this research is to present the world frontier of knowledge and identify areas of research opportunity around innovation barriers. For this purpose, the Systematic Literature Review
(SLR) method was applied, through which 82 articles were analyzed from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The main results show a high heterogeneity among studies, specifically in those that seek to determine the impact of barriers on the decision to innovate. Its originality lies in the integrative approach, to date there have been no similar studies on the subject; the research makes a significant contribution, providing comprehensive information on the factors that limit innovation. The findings bring future lines of research closer to deepening regional studies. The variability of the results in the database searches was the study’s main limitation.