Accounting for Oslo Manual: reflecting on the past and setting the stage for future research

• DOI: 10.17323/fstig.2025.24058
• Publication Date: 2025-03-29T19:20:53Z
• Authors: Alexandre Paredes; Bruno Damásio; Sandro Mendonça
• Keywords: Technological innovations. Automation; HD45-45.2; Oslo Manual; bibliometrics; innovation; policy

The Oslo Manual is the internationally recognized reference for guiding collection and interpretation of evidence on innovation. This research explores its three-decade-long implementation influence, emphasizing role within community. We assess content’s quantity quality through an advanced bibliometric textmetric analysis over 1300 papers published in indexed journals. Our study offers evidence-based understanding Manual’s adoption impact, elucidating disciplinary integration, geographical interest, reception phases. Notably, findings unveil increasing significance innovation-related topics since inaugural edition 1992, with a pronounced surge gaining momentum after 2008. Furthermore, consistently cited references underscore researchers’ focus, highlighting rising importance innovation interconnected domains like entrepreneurship, performance, knowledge, management. enhances our use revealing enduring relevance broader impact shaping research.