ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ITS APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT BASED ON A CIRCULAR ECONOMY MODEL: A REVIEW

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variables Sustainable Development and Circular Economy. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this document was to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in the Scopus database during the period 20 17-202 2, achieving the identification of 482 publications in total. The information provided by this platform was organized through graphs and figures categorizing the information by the Year  of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics have been described, the position of different authors on the proposed theme is referenced through a qualitative analysis. Among the main findings made through this research, it is found that Brazil was the Latin American country with the highest number of registrations in Scopus with a total of 249 publicationsreferring to the analysisof entrepreneurship and its focus on Sustainable Development and the Circular Economy.  The Area of Knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the  study variables  was Environmental Sciences  with 295 published documents, and the Type of Publication that was most used during the period indicated above was  the Journal Articles that represent 65% of the total scientific production.