Technology Standards: letting the consumer decide?
Description
Enablers
- Patents
- Licensing
- Competitive Advantage
- Marketshare
- Consumers
Inhibitors
- Patents
- Law Suits
- Government regulations
- Consumer acceptance
- Competitors
Paradigms
On the one hand standards have there use, the make it easy for a lot of companies to produce the same products where the media can be interchanged by everyone.
Experts
- Stango, Victor (2004) The Economics of Standards Wars
- Varian, Hal R. (1998) Standard wars
Timing
Web Resources
- http://www.rnejournal.com/articles/stango_mar04.pdf
- http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/courses/eecsba1/sp99/standard.pdf
- http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci962865,00.html
- http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/story/0,10801,97603,00.html
- Standards Wars:Rights, Responsibilities and Strategies