...upon the management of information systems, such as through the network effects and switching costs created by the supply of specialized complementary assets. It concludes with suggestions for future research....
This report is the work product of a special working group commissioned in 2003 by the Aerospace Industries Association Board of Governors to assess the state of standard setting in...
...undertake the cost and resource allocation necessary to adopt them. The report documents and compares two business cases, one with incidental use of open standards, and one involving extensive utilization...
...and broadest examples of this pervasive but stealthy phenomenon: embodiment by Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission of privately-promulgated accounting standards in public law. With accounting standards as a...
As standards have become critical for advancing technology and new markets, patents have become easier to obtain, more potent, and readily available for software and business methods. A low threshold...
Technology’s transformative power has always been a source of great expectations and challenges. Today, globalization, fueled by information and communication technologies (ICT), is rapidly changing every society. Our drive towards...
Business and technical factors, and law cases that directly involve standards, are often considered in drafting and assessing standards policies, in contributing patent technology to a standard, in determining the...
In recent years, business leaders, policymakers, and inventors have complained to the media and to Congress that today’s patent system stifles innovation instead of fostering it. But like the infamous...
...home and business owners to create electricity from alternative energy during off-peak hours that can be sold back into the grid when demand is high. Such a system can also...
...the nearest computer to find and read the texts that bind them. Lagging behind this development, however, has been computer access to standards developed by private standards development organizations, often...