Bubbles located along the diagonal line on the right-hand side of the figure represent “open-ended” burst technologies (i.e. technologies still developing at an accelerated pace at the end of the sample period). Figure 8 show's, for example, that at the start of the 2000s, activities burgeoned in the field of digital data processing and editing, enabling what today is referred to as big data or data-driven innovation (DDI, see OECD, 2015b). Since 2008, technologies related to wireless communications and improved performance of ICT devices (e.g. power management, data transfer) have accelerated with unprecedented intensity, enabling the mobile revolution across society and with that for example applications that has emerged under the label of the “sharing economy”. In 2010-12, about a quarter of ICT-related patents also belonged to one or more other technological fields (Figure 9).