...adopted as an industry standard, however, that equation can change radically. Because of competitive necessity to practice the patented standard, particularly in industries characterized by network effects, the power potentially...
This Article contrasts the SSO with alternative standard setting processes, examines the importance of price competition in network effect driven markets, and asks how intellectual property and antitrust policy should...
In recent years, there has been heightened interest in having government intervene in what has become primarily a market activity to mandate information technology standards. This article will provide an...
...technical progress versus economic forces. We examine this classical issue in the modern market of web browsers. Using a new data source, we study browser brand shares and the diffusion...
...SSOs. We selected 3GPP for our study, because several of the issues being raised with respect to standards have been related to the wireless communications standards developed at this organization....
...the users and increasing returns for the producers. Standards can be created by market or committee-based mechanisms but also by a combination of both types. One goal of a standard...
...The RapidIO standard is an ISO-certified open standard that enables chip-to-chip, board-to-board, control, backplane and data plane interconnections for high-performance networking, communications, and embedded systems. The RapidIO Trade Association enables,...
...providers, equipment manufacturers, and network operators to deliver new applications and services to consumers in their connected homes. In 2013, TAHI transitioned into the Smart Homes and Buildings Association: http://www.shaba.eu/...
Developed and maintained the fieldbus digital communications and integrated system architecture. Fieldbus Foundation was a not-for-profit trade consortium representing the major process automation industry suppliers and end users worldwide. Fieldbus...
Open source is a software development model that to many is synonymous with a free and free-wheeling operating system juggernaut destined to upend current computer markets. IBM is embracing Linux...