Technovation: Scopus Indexing, Journal Metrics, Scope & Submission Guide

Quick Answer: What Is Technovation?

Technovation is a peer-reviewed Elsevier journal for research on how technologies are developed, commercialised, managed, adopted, organised, financed, governed, and used to create economic or social value. Its scope reaches beyond technical invention itself: manuscripts are expected to contribute to understanding innovation, entrepreneurship, technology strategy, digital or emerging technologies, innovation ecosystems, technology transfer, new product development, organisational practices, or related managerial and policy questions.

The journal uses double-anonymized peer review. Elsevier states that submissions are first assessed by editors for suitability and, when sent for review, are typically evaluated by at least two independent expert reviewers. Researchers whose manuscripts connect a meaningful technological phenomenon with a clear innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy, management, or policy contribution may consider the journal, but they should compare their paper against the current aims and scope and recent Technovation articles before submitting.

Key Takeaways for Researchers

• Publisher: Elsevier.
• Journal identity: Technovation, print ISSN 0166-4972 and online ISSN 1879-2383.
• Scopus: Elsevier lists Scopus among the journal’s abstracting and indexing services; supplied Scopus Source ID: 14726.
• Current displayed metrics: 19.5 CiteScore and 10.9 Impact Factor on Elsevier’s Technovation pages at the time this guide was prepared.
• Peer review: double anonymized; suitable manuscripts are typically sent to a minimum of two reviewers.
• Open access: hybrid. Elsevier displays an optional open-access APC of USD 4,120 excluding taxes; the subscription route has no publication fee charged to authors.
• Submission essentials: editable source files, separate title page and anonymized manuscript, abstract up to 250 words, 1–7 keywords, and mandatory highlights.
• Fit matters: a technologically interesting topic is not enough by itself; the manuscript should make a convincing contribution to technological innovation, entrepreneurship, or technology management.

Technovation Journal Information at a Glance

Methodology and Source Verification

This journal guide was prepared from the supplied journal record and Contentxprtz template, then checked against authoritative information from Elsevier’s official Technovation journal page, journal insights, editorial-board page, and Guide for Authors. The Scopus Source ID supplied with the task was also used to identify the correct journal. Where a current numeric value could not be verified from an authoritative accessible source, this guide uses “verify current value” rather than estimating it.

Metrics, editorial appointments, article publishing charges, processing timelines, policies, and indexing coverage can change. Researchers should therefore reconfirm important institutional criteria immediately before submission, especially if a university requires a particular quartile, database, Impact Factor year, or active Scopus status.

Technovation Aims and Scope: What Research Fits?

Elsevier’s aims and scope position Technovation as an interdisciplinary journal encompassing multiple facets of technological innovation. Its scope treats innovation as both process and product and explicitly includes social innovation, regulation and policy, creation of non-economic benefit, technology-based product or process development, and commercial utilisation. This makes the journal relevant to researchers examining innovation not only inside firms but also across entrepreneurial ventures, institutions, markets, ecosystems, and policy environments.

Officially described topic areas include technological trends and breakthroughs; finance for new-product development and commercialisation; displacement of existing products; management of technology-intensive entrepreneurial ventures; innovation management in medium-sized and large organisations; organisational structures and practices for innovation; investment strategies for science- and technology-based enterprises; the technological innovator as entrepreneur, manager, employee or team member; technology transfer involving developing countries; and technological innovation across enterprise, political, and economic systems.

Research themes that may align well

• technology and innovation strategy;
• entrepreneurship, new ventures, incubators, accelerators, and spin-offs;
• digital innovation, platforms, artificial intelligence, data-driven innovation, and emerging technologies;
• open innovation, collaborative innovation, ecosystems, crowdsourcing, and user innovation;
• new-product development, commercialisation, adoption, and market creation;
• R&D management, global R&D, technology transfer, and internationalisation;
• business-model innovation, servitization, and digital transformation;
• sustainability innovation, green transformation, and social innovation;
• innovation policy, technology roadmapping, and the institutional context of innovation;
• governance, organisational design, investment, capabilities, and decision-making around technology.

Editorial interpretation: a manuscript can involve engineering, AI, digital platforms, sustainability, healthcare technology, manufacturing, or another technical domain, but the central scholarly contribution should still speak to innovation, entrepreneurship, technology management, strategy, organisation, or policy. A paper focused only on technical performance without a relevant management or innovation contribution may be a weak fit.

Who Should Consider Submitting to Technovation?

Technovation may be appropriate for university researchers, doctoral scholars, innovation-management academics, entrepreneurship researchers, technology-strategy scholars, policy researchers, and professionals conducting rigorous empirical or conceptual research. It may also suit interdisciplinary teams combining management or social-science perspectives with engineering, information systems, data science, sustainability, or public-policy expertise.

For PhD candidates, the journal can be attractive when the thesis produces a discrete paper with a clear theoretical contribution, defensible methods, and direct relevance to the journal’s research conversation. However, candidates should not select a journal solely because it is indexed or has strong citation metrics. Supervisor, university, funder, and doctoral-program requirements can differ, and the paper must satisfy the journal’s scope and quality expectations independently of degree requirements.

Article Types and the Kind of Work Published

Recent Technovation issues on ScienceDirect visibly classify papers as Research articles, while past issues also show Review articles and Editorials. Special issues are also part of the journal’s publishing activity. Authors considering an unusual format should verify the current Guide for Authors or contact the journal rather than assuming that a format seen historically is currently open for unsolicited submission.

Recent published topics illustrate the journal’s breadth: platform and ecosystem research, customer-driven service innovation, 3D-printing and innovation performance, university–industry collaboration, business-model innovation, incubation networks, autonomous-vehicle adoption, digitalisation, sustainability, and open innovation. These examples should be used as fit signals rather than as a closed list of acceptable topics.

Editorial Leadership and Peer-Review Process

Elsevier’s current editorial-board page lists S. Matos of the University of Surrey Business School and W. Vanhaverbeke of the University of Antwerp as Editors in Chief. The wider editorial structure includes area editors covering domains such as global R&D and innovation, marketing and new product development, design-science research, corporate governance and innovation, digital innovation, innovation strategy, social innovation, emerging technology, ecosystems, entrepreneurship, sustainability innovation, and digital platforms.

The journal follows double-anonymized peer review: author identities are concealed from reviewers and reviewer identities are concealed from authors. Elsevier says editors first assess the submission’s suitability. Papers judged suitable are typically sent to at least two independent reviewers for assessment of scientific quality, after which editors make the decision.

Authors should therefore prepare two distinct files for review: a title page containing identifying details and an anonymized manuscript without author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or other identifying information. Self-citations and manuscript text should also be checked for inadvertent disclosure.

Manuscript Preparation Requirements

The official Guide for Authors contains detailed technical requirements. Key points include:

• Editable source files: Word files should use .doc/.docx and LaTeX files .tex. A PDF alone is not an acceptable source file.
• Layout: Word manuscripts should use a single-column layout; double-column formatting is permitted for LaTeX.
• Abstract: concise and factual, maximum 250 words.
• Keywords: 1–7 keywords in English.
• Highlights: required as a separate editable file, normally 3–5 bullets with a maximum of 85 characters including spaces per bullet.
• Graphical abstract: encouraged rather than mandatory, subject to the journal’s technical and rights requirements.
• Sections: clearly defined and numbered sections and subsections.
• Glossary: definitions of field-specific terms should be provided as a separate list where relevant.
• CRediT: corresponding authors are required to acknowledge co-author contributions using CRediT roles.
• Tables: editable text rather than images, numbered and cited in sequence.
• Figures: supplied as separate files, numbered, cited, and accompanied by captions.
• References: no strict reference formatting is required at initial submission as long as the style is consistent and complete; DOIs are encouraged.

The title page should include the article title, author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, declaration of interest, and corresponding-author contact information. Because of double anonymization, the main manuscript should exclude identifying information.

Ethics, Authorship, AI Use, Data and Disclosure

Technovation follows Elsevier publishing policies covering originality, authorship, competing interests, funding, preprints, inclusive language, research data, permissions, and responsible use of generative AI. Authors must confirm that the work is not simultaneously under consideration elsewhere and that all authors and responsible authorities approve the submission.

Elsevier’s authorship guidance requires substantial contributions to the research, drafting or critical revision, final approval, and accountability. Competing interests and funding sources must be disclosed. The journal’s Guide for Authors also includes a generative-AI policy: AI tools may support manuscript preparation under human oversight, but authors remain accountable for accuracy, originality, sources, and rights. Where applicable, AI-assisted use must be transparently declared. AI tools cannot be listed as authors.

For researchers using editing or publication-support services, ethical practice means preserving the authors’ intellectual ownership, using authentic references, avoiding fabricated data or citations, and disclosing assistance when journal or institutional rules require it.

Open Access, APC and Subscription Publishing

Technovation is a hybrid journal. Elsevier’s journal insights currently display an optional open-access APC of USD 4,120 excluding taxes, with the note that the amount may be reduced during submission when applicable. Under the subscription route, Elsevier states that no publication fee is charged to authors and articles are immediately available to subscribers.

The APC should not be confused with an acceptance fee or a payment for peer-review success. It applies to the open-access publishing option after acceptance under the publisher’s terms. Authors should check institutional agreements, funder requirements, waivers or discounts, licence choices, and the current amount at the point of submission or acceptance.

Submission and Publication Timeline

Elsevier’s current Technovation insights page displays the following journal-level publishing indicators: 17 days from submission to first decision, 105 days from submission to decision after review, 326 days from submission to acceptance, and 11 days from acceptance to online publication. These are journal-level historical indicators, not guarantees for an individual manuscript.

Actual timing depends on editorial screening, reviewer availability, number and complexity of revision rounds, author response time, research topic, special-issue handling, and production requirements. Researchers with thesis deadlines or funding-reporting dates should build in sufficient contingency rather than treating the displayed averages as promised turnaround times.

How to Submit a Manuscript to Technovation

1. Read the current aims and scope and compare your manuscript with several recent Technovation papers.
2. Open the official Guide for Authors and confirm current file, anonymization, abstract, keyword, highlight, figure, table, data, ethics, and disclosure requirements.
3. Prepare the title page separately from the anonymized manuscript.
4. Check authorship order, affiliations, corresponding-author details, funding, competing interests, CRediT roles, acknowledgements, and any AI-use declaration.
5. Confirm that every in-text citation appears in the reference list and that reference metadata and DOIs are accurate.
6. Upload editable source files and all required supplementary files through the journal’s online submission system linked from the official ScienceDirect page.
7. Review the system-generated submission PDF carefully before final approval.
8. After submission, respond to editorial and reviewer requests through the journal system and keep a documented version history for revisions.

Is Your Manuscript a Good Fit? A Practical Journal-Fit Checklist

Common Reasons a Paper May Be Unsuitable

Elsevier does not publish a simple checklist of “automatic rejection reasons” for Technovation, so the following points are practical editorial-readiness considerations rather than official rejection rules. A manuscript may face difficulty if its topic falls outside the stated innovation/entrepreneurship/technology-management scope, its theoretical contribution is weak, the research question is incremental, methods are not sufficiently rigorous, or the implications are not supported by the evidence.

Desk-review risk may also increase when a manuscript has not engaged with the journal’s current scholarly conversation, lacks a clear explanation of novelty, uses outdated or incomplete literature, contains avoidable language problems that obscure meaning, or does not follow anonymization and submission requirements. Authors should treat recent Technovation articles as a calibration set for expected problem framing, contribution, methodological transparency, and discussion depth.

How to Strengthen a Technovation Submission Before Uploading

As a practical publication-readiness step, map the paper’s core claims to the journal’s scope. Write one sentence for the technological phenomenon, one for the innovation or entrepreneurship problem, one for the theoretical contribution, one for the evidence, and one for the managerial or policy implication. If these statements do not form a coherent chain, the paper may need conceptual work before formatting becomes the priority.

Next, compare the manuscript with a focused set of recent Technovation papers in the same or adjacent topic area. Examine how those papers frame the research gap, position theory, justify methods, report robustness, discuss boundary conditions, and articulate contribution. This is not about copying structure or language; it is about understanding the journal’s active scholarly conversation.

Finally, perform a submission audit: anonymization, title page, 250-word abstract limit, 1–7 keywords, highlights file, tables and figures, declarations, CRediT statement, reference completeness, data statement where relevant, permissions, and editable source files.

How Contentxprtz Can Support Publication Readiness

Contentxprtz can ethically support researchers preparing a Technovation submission through academic editing, proofreading, language polishing, manuscript assessment, journal-formatting checks, reference and citation consistency, cover-letter editing, reviewer-response editing, and publication-readiness review. Support can also help researchers identify whether the manuscript communicates its research problem, contribution, methods, findings, and implications clearly to an international scholarly audience.

Such support should strengthen presentation and compliance without manufacturing research contributions, data, results, citations, or authorship. Contentxprtz does not control editorial screening or peer review and cannot guarantee acceptance or publication.

Author’s Final Pre-Submission Checklist

• My topic and contribution directly connect to Technovation’s aims and scope.
• I have reviewed recent papers in the journal for topical and methodological fit.
• The abstract is no more than 250 words and can stand alone.
• I have supplied 1–7 keywords and a separate highlights file.
• The title page and anonymized manuscript are separate.
• The anonymized manuscript contains no identifying author information.
• All tables, figures, supplementary files, and editable source files are ready.
• Authorship, CRediT roles, funding, conflicts, acknowledgements, and relevant AI-use disclosures are complete.
• Every citation is supported by an authentic source and reference metadata are accurate.
• I have checked the current APC, indexing status, metrics, and any university-specific journal requirements immediately before submission.

Summary: Is Technovation the Right Journal for Your Research?

Technovation is a high-visibility Elsevier journal centred on technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology management. It is indexed in Scopus according to Elsevier, uses double-anonymized peer review, and currently displays a CiteScore of 19.5 and Impact Factor of 10.9. The journal’s scope is interdisciplinary, but successful fit depends on more than having a technology-related topic: the manuscript should make a clear scholarly contribution to innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy, management, organisation, ecosystems, policy, or commercialisation.

Before submitting, verify the latest journal metrics and institutional requirements, review the official author guide, compare your paper with recent Technovation publications, and complete a detailed anonymization and submission audit. Strong journal selection is not about chasing one metric; it is about matching the paper’s question, contribution, evidence, audience, and publication requirements to the journal.