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Academic papers

The articles listed below are the commended papers from the IEC Centenary Challenge. The IEC Centenary Challenge was a competition for papers on the economic, business and social impact of International Standards on business. It was organized in association with The Economist magazine and in partnership with three leading professional engineering bodies: the IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology); IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); and VDE, the German association for electrical, electronic and information technologies. The IEC Challenge Award Ceremony was held at Savoy Place, London, on 14 December 2006.

All articles are published in the book "International Standardization as a Strategic Tool ", which can be purchased from the IEC Webstore

 
Commended papers (in alphabetical order)
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Architecture-based approaches to international standardization and evolution of business models
Junjiro Shintaku (lead author); Koichi Ogawa, Tetsuo Yoshimoto (co-authors)
The University of Tokyo - Manufacturing Management Research Center, Japan

PDF 1'636 KB

Benefits of standardization in the microelectronics industries and their implications on nanotechnology and other innovative industries
Werner Bergholz (lead author); Bettina Weiss, Carlos Lee (co-authors)
International University Bremen, Germany

PDF 1'125 KB

Do national standards hinder or promote trade in electrical products?
Johannes Moenius
University of Redlands, USA

PDF 982 KB

Industrial legislatures: The American system of standardization
Andrew Russell
The Johns Hopkins University, USA

PDF 938 KB

Measuring the performance of standard setting organizations
Timothy S. Simcoe (lead author); Marc Rysman (co-author)
The Joseph L. Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto, Canada

PDF 1'027 KB

Standardization and business development: The global impact of the IOSA standards and the value of anticipation
David Hodgkinson,
The University of Western Australia, Australia

PDF 911 KB

Standardization and patent pools: Using patent licensing to lead the market
Hajime Yamada,
Toyo University, Japan

PDF 1'190 KB

Standardizing mesopic vision conditions and incidence on light sources science and technology
Georges Zissis (lead author); Stuart Mucklejohn (co-author)
Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III, France, Laboratoire des Plasmas et de Conversion de l'Energie - Team 'Sources Intenses des Photons'

PDF 1'232 KB

Standards for business - How companies benefit from participation in international standards setting
Dr.ir. Henk J. de Vries
RSM Erasmus University, The Netherlands

PDF 932 KB

The entrepreneur and standards
Ken Krechmer (lead author); Elaine Baskin (co-author)
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

PDF 1'221 KB

The impacts of ICT standards: Three views
Knut Blind
Fraunhofer ISI, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

PDF 980 KB
 

 

 

 
 
 
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