...survive. An II contains huge numbers of components. Most of them alternate between standardisation and change throughout their lifetime. These components are interdependent: one is changed while others have to...
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 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...
Development of national Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure is a kind of activity that government engage to in order to create a rubric of progress and to promote diffusion...
...hobbyist groups on the Internet. The user group chosen as a case study for this project was online amateur fiction community. This community was chosen because it could benefit from...
...directories of the Internet, which are currently under the indirect control of the United States Department of Commerce. This dispute has been a diversion from the more important work of...
In this article we examine the legitimacy of committee standardization as an alternative to pure market processes of technical standardization of information and communication technology (ICT). We argue that not...
In fulfilling their missions, government agencies and organizations reference a variety of technical standards in rule making, in procurement, and in other activities. Since its enactment in 1996, the National...
Whether government should incline towards leading, following or simply getting out of the way [in standard setting] is a matter upon which there are likely to be strongly held differences...