Inovação, Desenvolvimento Regional e a Contribuição das Universidades: Um Estudo Bibliométrico do Período de 2018 A 2022.

The present study aims to explore research on Innovation, Regional Development and the contribution of Universities based on a bibliometric study with data from the Web of Science. The VOSviewer software was used, with data extracted in September 2022, searching for the terms "university", "innovation", "regional development", present in the topic. In order to refine the search for articles, the Boolean operator: AND was used. The search returned 260 articles. Therefore, after reading the title and abstract of the scientific articles, 93 articles were identified that fit the scope of the study according to their content. Considering Zupic & Cater (2014), citation, co-citation, bibliographic coupling, co-occurrence of keywords were analyzed, in addition to the 10 most cited articles in the time period from 2018 to 2022. Cai and Etzkowitz (2020), FINI et al. (2018), Zhang, Chen and Fu (2019) and WAKKEE et al. (2019) are among the most referenced authors of the selected articles. The results show the interdisciplinary character of the studied field, represented by studies in the themes Management, Environmental Studies, Economics, Geography, Regional Urban Planning, Green Sustainable Science Technology, Environmental Science, Business, Industrial Engineering and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. As a contribution, this article presents the contributions that the university offers to innovation and regional development and its influence on scientific performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]