...should set voting rules to obtain majority support in the selection of technologies for a standard and should consider means of encouraging ex ante bilateral negotiations. In addition, competition authorities...
This paper is a critique on Hanseth et al. (1996), a study that centres on the question: does standardisation fix the parameters of ICT development and thus hamper innovation. Its...
Standards have become one of the most important elements in technological development in ICT. However, standard-setting process is a complex coordination between different players. One of the strategies is the...
Joint ISO/ IEC standards and guides for “conformity assessment” encourage best practice and consistency when products, services, systems, processes and materials need to be evaluated against standards, regulations or other...
Integrating cross-company business process standards in an interorganizational system (IOS) context is an emerging phenomenon on several business fronts. The practice is viewed as an enabler towards solidifying business to...
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...is less commonly recognized that this collaborative framework is a potential innovation of much greater proportions. In fact, it can guide the collective development of any intellectual content, not just...
...big companies don’t actually have that much freedom to use their patents to exclude competition, do they? A: Exactly. In fact, patents today among the Big Boys are a sort of...
...investigating, and at times massively fining, companies like Google for perceived competition law violations. The moral? Providing something for free does not provide antitrust or competition law immunity. But there’s...
...turn be offered to ISO for adoption. In that blog entry, I compared the commitment and impact of the Microsoft covenant to that of the covenant earlier announced by...