  Research on innovation and sustainability is prolific but fragmented. This
study integrates the research on innovation in management and business and STEM
fields for sustainability in a unified framework for the case of developing
countries (i.e., the Global South). It presents and discusses the output,
impact, and structure of such research based on a sample of 14,000+ articles
and conference proceedings extracted from the bibliographic database Scopus.
The findings reveal research output inflections after global announcements such
as UN-Earth Summits. The study also reveals the indisputable leadership of
China in overall output and research agenda-setting. Nonetheless, countries
such as India, Mexico, and Nigeria are either more efficient or impactful. GS
research published in highly reputable journals is still scarce but increasing
modestly. Central topic clusters (e.g., knowledge management) remain peripheral
to the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) research landscape. Finally,
academic-corporate collaboration is in its infancy and limited to particular
economic sectors: energy, pharmaceuticals, and high-tech.
