The world is experiencing a sea change in its population age structure. According to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022), the number of older individuals in the population is on the rise trends. Although the aging population presents many challenges, it also allows businesses to take advantage of new opportunities. Economic potential associated with ageing is strongly influenced by silver entrepreneurship in order to be (pro)active. In this way, the silver entrepreneurship is gaining momentum among academics, business people, and policymakers. This study is an effort to use bibliometric and visual analysis of silver entrepreneurship research that was published between 2014 and 2024 worldwide. Additionally, Scopus provided the majority of the data for this study. There are the total 45 research papers participated in the study. The findings of the study revealed that few authors research relevant areas. The most of studies come from the developed countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain. There is an increase trend in the average number of research papers in the field of silver entrepreneurship between the years 2014 and 2024. The findings show the thematic patterns, resulting in the identification of 1 cluster including a total of 4 items.
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