...in most of Dutch technology policy and is a focal point of OECD comparative analysis (best practice, bench marking), it is much more difficult to introduce at the European level....
...provide the first estimates of the incremental production costs of enterprises in developing nations in conforming to standards imposed by major importing countries. We use firm-level data generated from 16...
...with dominant proprietary software firms? How do they interface with communities of practice to exploit network externalities? What strategies do they adopt to lock-in developers? Based on a multiple case...
Vertically orientated standards development consortia are rapidly making their mark in the ICT standards setting landscape. Employing a minimalist approach towards the standards setting process (develop a little, test a...
Standard setting organizations often require their members to declare which of their patents are essential to the practice of a prospective standard, and to agree to license any such standard-essential...
Although various software development coordination tools are widely used in practice, no field study has comprehensively assessed the robustness and nature of their impact on the software development process. This...
The task of improving healthcare information technology is being addressed by many practitioners, vendors, organizations and governments around the world. For example, in his January 2004 State of the Union...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) and the courts have recently grappled with the question of whether members of private voluntary standard-setting organizations (SSOs) may conceal their intellectual...
Modern day antitrust policy is grounded firmly in neoclassical economics. It is important, however, to test whether the modelling assumptions accord with the facts. It is also important to assess...
...his committee would commence an investigation into the facts underlying his concerns. Senator Pacheco's committee has now completed it's investigation of the situation, and has issued a 31 page, small...