“…Researchers have utilized patent documents to analyze technology trends (Khasseh et al, 2017;Kim, Suh, & Park, 2008;Yoon & Park, 2004), perform tasks of technology forecasting (Chen et al, 2017;Daim et al, 2006;G. Kim & Bae, 2017;Kyebambe et al, 2017;Yoon & Park, 2005), investigate relations among scientists (Jiang et al, 2017), and undertake strategic technology planning (Joung & Kim, 2017;Lee, Kim, & Shin, 2017;Yu & Zhang, 2017). However, we still lack in a holistic understanding of technological change that considers four distinct but interrelated dimensions and evolutionary paths that lead to advances in a specific technology sector, i.e.…”