The impact of standards and technical regulations on trade is at the forefront of public policy discussions. Developing nations face constraints in absorbing best-practice information on standards and mobilizing resources...
...during a thirty day period ending on March 22. The results yield a snapshot of what consortia are doing, how they do it, which of them are most active –...
...basic model to multiple categories of users, to the downstream presence of the sponsor, and to within-user-group network externalities. Finally, it studies strategic forum shopping by sponsors of competing standards....
...demotivate continued investment in process improvement by the software acquisition and software supplier communities. If the prospective standard can provide an integrating framework while still advancing the state of practice...
...the Agencies will challenge a practice as anticompetitive. However, these Guidelines cannot remove judgment and discretion in antitrust law enforcement. Moreover, the standards set forth in these Guidelines must be...
This paper traces recent transformations in Europe’s innovation policy–the move towards EU-wide policy coordination in the form of an “Innovation Union.” A deep fiscal crisis and increasingly severe austerity policies...
The purpose of this paper is to outline the motivations behind the growth of alliances as a means of advancing the goals and objectives of individual organizations/companies, especially those working...
...the patent owner refuses to license certain competitors, or grants licenses only at terms perceived by users as commercially unreasonable. Absent a mechanism to compel licensing, a hold-up problem ensues....
...groups rather than individual companies.4 Unfortunately, an examination of government policy towards electronic commerce reveals that the government’s actual approach to standard-setting is internally inconsistent. Further, the broad general endorsement...
...print. The recognition of a copyright and the practice of paying royalties emerged with the printing press. With the arrival of electronic reproduction, these practices become unworkable. Electronic publishing is...