Business is not only an important perpetrator of the environmental problems, but it also plays a key role in successfully addressing them. In the process of solving environmental problem not only the role of large companies but also entrepreneurs has been noticed. Environmental entrepreneurship (otherwise referred to as “ecopreneurship”) can be defined as the process of entrepreneurship applied in order to create businesses that solve environmental problems or operate sustainably. Despite the growing interest in environmental entrepreneurship, the academic literature on the subject is still in a nascent stage which justifies carrying out analyses in this area.

The purpose of the study is, through a bibliometric analysis, to reflect the status of the environmental entrepreneurship field, identify key research areas and establish future directions for research. The article presents previous literature studies and intend to fill the identified gap in terms of queries, databases, research period and methodology. In particular we applied H-Classics methodology and in-depth content analysis of 318 sample articles which has not been used in previous studies.

The analysis led to identifying four research sub-areas of environmental entrepreneurship within the document sample. Directions of further research are such areas of exploration as factors influencing entrepreneurial actions (external e.g. institutional factors, internal – including psychological factors) and the importance of various entities in the development of sustainable entrepreneurship (which includes ecopreneurship). There is also the need to look at entrepreneurship from multiple scientific perspectives and the necessity to carry out research eliminating the limitations of previous research projects. Due to the fact that entrepreneurship is a dynamic phenomenon, it has been stressed on several occasions that there is a need for conducting longitudinal research.

商业不仅是环境问题的重要根源，而且在成功解决环境问题中也起着关键作用。在解决环境问题的过程中，不仅注意到大型公司的角色，而且还注意到企业家。可以将环境企业家精神（也称为“企业精神”）定义为为创建解决环境问题或可持续运营的企业而应用的企业家精神过程。尽管人们对环境企业家精神的兴趣日益浓厚，但有关这一主题的学术文献仍处于起步阶段，因此有必要在这一领域进行分析。

该研究的目的是通过文献计量分析来反映环境创业领域的现状，确定关键研究领域并确定未来的研究方向。本文介绍了以前的文献研究，并打算填补在查询，数据库，研究时期和方法学方面已发现的空白。特别是，我们采用了H-Classics方法论，并对318篇样本文章进行了深入的内容分析，这在以前的研究中并未使用。

分析导致在文件样本中确定了四个环境企业家精神研究子区域。进一步研究的方向是探索领域，例如影响企业家行为的因素（外部因素，例如制度因素，内部因素，包括心理因素）以及各种实体在可持续企业家精神发展中的重要性（包括生态企业家精神）。还需要从多种科学角度看待企业家精神，并且有必要进行研究以消除先前研究项目的局限性。由于企业家精神是一种动态现象，因此在许多场合都强调需要进行纵向研究。