In 2003, Massachusetts embarked on a policy to transition to open standards for information technology. This policy led Massachusetts to switch the format of its electronic documents for its public...
The purpose of this paper is to analyze key changes in the institutional setting for standardization and to discuss what they indicate about further developments of the mobile telecom sector.
This paper studies the impact of entrepreneurial decisions regarding standard creation in an oligopolistic market with cooperative R&D investments. Our game-theoretic analysis shows that if standards are open and only...
We analyze governments’ incentives to recognize foreign standards when there are potentially both network effects and conversion costs. When government policy is lim- ited to either recognizing all foreign standards...
...original intent. The scope of this work includes additional topics that are critical for a complete understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry....
...organizations (SSOs)) composed of participants from a given market or industry (electronic components, communications, etc.). They meet to discuss, analyze, refine, and ultimately adopt mutually acceptable standards, which ensure competing...
This paper focuses on the training needed by technical experts and explores the type of academic coursework as well as training that technical experts need in the field of standards...
Standard setting can potentially be accomplished in either of two ways: it can be performed unilaterally—as for example is done by Dolby Laboratories, Inc.— or it can be done collaboratively....
In a series of cases decided over the past two decades, courts have tried to define the protection provided by copyright law to computer programs. One issue often implicit and...
...number of open standards. The results of this research are timely, as governments are advocating and sometimes mandating the use of open standards. Through our study we found inequalities in...