Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the invention process promotes technological progress....

Intelligently allocating research effort and funds requires deciding whether to build on recent advances or on more established knowledge. When recent advances create superior opportunities for invention, their adoption as research inputs in the invention process promotes technological progress....

This bibliometric study aims to map the conceptual structure of intellectual capital (IC) research between 1975 and 2020 using co-word analysis and social network analysis drawing upon the Web of Science database. The results show that 12,310 documents have been published from 1975 to 2020. From...