“…In this paper, we adopt a co-word analysis as a patent intelligence tool to investigate the structure of the IoT field. More specifically, co-word analysis is a scientometrics instrument commonly used in the management field to disentangle the conceptual profile of science (Ronda-Pupo & Guerras-Martin, 2012; Benavides-Velasco, Quintana-García, & Guzmán-Parra, 2013; Castriotta, Loi, Marku, & Naitana, 2019). When applied to patent documents, the basic assumption of this method relies on the fact that abstracts, given their brevity, can capture core concepts included in a document (Callon, Courtial, Turner, & Bauin, 1983).…”