Neuroentrepreneurship: state of the art and future lines of work

Abstract

This study aims to conduct a literature review and examine key research topics within the field of neuroentrepreneurship, categorizing works based on this classification and specifying different directions of research lines. Additionally, it seeks to compile definitions and their evolution regarding the concept of neuroentrepreneurship, contributing a new proposal. The methodology involves identifying keywords related to main themes and their direct relation to all research works encompassed in the entrepreneurship spectrum. Research articles matching the query are extracted from the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases, as they provide a comprehensive citation search and access to multidisciplinary research, adhering to established inclusion-exclusion criteria. Findings allow the classification of contributions to the literature into four themes: Neuroscience and entrepreneurship, the use of neurotechnologies in entrepreneurship research, the neurological profile of the entrepreneur, and ethics in neuroentrepreneurship. Lastly, this study emphasizes its originality by presenting a set of works directly related to neuroentrepreneurship, establishing a classification based on four thematic research lines in neuroentrepreneurship. This allows extracting a limited set of definitions for the concept, classifying them based on themes incorporated in the definition. Finally, the authors provide a comprehensive definition of neuroentrepreneurship, tailored to the four major research blocks in this discipline.