“…Other effects are visible when an innovation demonstrates to be influential in the history of product development. For instance, the birth of complementary products as an evidence of success is remarked by many scholars in the last few decades (McGee and Sammut Bonnici, 2002;Rainer and Strohmaier, 2014;Calcei and Ohana, 2017). As the impact of successful artefacts can be understood also as a technical, and not just as a market-related, breakthrough, many scholars associate the achievement of patent protection of commercialized products with the emergence of success (Nyström, 1985;Hart, 1993).…”