Underdeveloped countries are at a huge technological disadvantage in the global high tech economy today. They have immeasurably fallen behind developed countries in both acquired technology and domestically developed technology....
This report quantifies and analyses participation in standards development within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO is perhaps the world’s largest and best known developer of international standards, with...
...with market failures because knowledge is a public good. Patents provide a second-best solution to the resulting appropriability problem. We review the main benefits and costs of the patent system,...
...services. This report discusses some of the complexities of the U.S. standards system. It also provides some understanding of what is meant by a documentary standard, as well as an...
At the time what became the XML Working Group was chartered, Tim Bray was an Invited Expert with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and a friend of Jon Bosak,...
...giving the firm with the preponderance of the promise a preference that corresponds to a patent offering complete exclusion. We show that the promised duration of preference evolves in a...
This paper examines the impact of essential patents on standardization. In particular, we analyze the influence of patents on the rate of standard replacement. We investigate whether essential patents contribute...
This contribution discusses open standards in the software industry from a competition law enforcement perspective. While some of the observations may be of relevance to other sectors as well, those...
One key aspect of the debate over network neutrality has been whether and how network neutrality should apply to wireless networks. The existing commentary has focused on the economics of...
...studies dealing with causes and effects of standardization focused on product standards or did not examine service standardization separately. Therefore, this paper embodies an exploratory, descriptive approach to explicitly discover...