...strategic and highly commoditized IT investments, and that differences in the strategic importance of information systems help explain where firms will adopt new technologies. We develop a framework that considers...
...protectionist tool. However, a complete review of the standardization system reveals that: i) protectionism is not the major focus of Chinese standards development efforts; and ii) it is not the...
...cases, complaints lodged with competition authorities, and attempts by members of Standard-Setting Organizations (“SSOs”) to have their rules and procedures modified to prevent allegedly anti-competitive outcomes. There seems to be...
In 1859, Abraham Lincoln famously observed that the “patent system . . . secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added...
This essay seeks to explain China’s inability to successfully adopt and commercialize new technology standards by contrasting two standards development cases: wireless local area networks and home networking....
The authors develop an informal model of the impact of the nonobviousness standard on the choice of research projects. Previous models assume that the basic question confronting a researcher is,...
...of information science and its relation to standards development. In their description of present activities, they focus on the activities of ANSI’s Accredited Standards Committee X3, Computers and Information Processing,...
...can report a government page that offers a document intended for collaborative use for downloading if that document is not available in an OpenDocument Format (ODF) compliant version. The portal...
...with US company founders in the majority. They may also be unaware of the enormous resulting benefit to US commerce of that comes from leadership in standards development. On the...
...note. They include the following (verbatim): Depending on their objectives, large companies can combine open source and FRAND licenses in their business models. For SMEs, however, the risk of litigation...