Western attempts to obtain Chinese compliance with intellectual property rights have a long history of failure. Most discussions of the problem focus on either legal comparisons or explanations arising from...
Despite a vast economics literature on standards and a growing literature on open innovation communities, there exists little research on how firms should participate in open standards communities. In this...
The complexity and dynamics of the ICT sector raise many questions about the mechanisms at work, many of which remain unanswered. One of these questions deals with the role of...
...future leaders in engineering, business and public policy on the value and importance of standards. There is a unique opportunity for the standards community to assist academe in incorporating engineering...
...progress has allowed us to envision a near future when micro-finance institutions can compete in mainstream capital markets and interact seamlessly with each other and with other potential business partners....
The announcement to open part of its code comes at a crucial time in terms of Microsoft’s future. It comes just a few days prior to the publication of an...
It is by now well understood that wireless is becoming the dominant mode for voice telecommunications worldwide. According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the number of mobile phones was...
...study, we examine how job mobility affects firm influence in a technical standards setting committee for U.S. wireless telecommunications. We hypothesize and find that hiring individuals who are richer in...
...a social impact through influencing the way European citizens are able to interact in social communities as well as with government. While there has been quite significant research and publications...
...The advent of electronic databases and the Internet, combined with business models that require that many partners be given at least limited access to electronically transmitted and archived data, has...