Standards, Innovation and Competitiveness The Politics and Economics of Standards in Natural... Book

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	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction: addressing the problematique of standards and standardization	1
2	Standards in an innovative world	7
3	Standardization policies for network technologies: the flux between freedom and order revisited	15
4	Do reforms make a difference? Gearing methodology to assessments of standardization practice	36
5	Stakeholder involvement in the administration of environmental standards	50
6	Problems and issues for public sector involvement in voluntary standardization	62
7	International challenges in defining the public and private interest in standards	67
8	Process environmental audits and the proposed British standard on environmental management systems	75
9	Infrastructure evolution and the global electronic marketplace: a European IT user's perspective	86
10	User involvement in the life cycles of information technology (IT) and telecommunication standards	93
11	Standards and standards setting processes in the field of the environment	105
12	Changing procedures for environmental standards-setting in the European Community (EC)	122
13	The standards processes in telecommunication and information technology	136
14	Standards-making as technological diplomacy: assessing objectives and methodologies in standards institutions	147
15	The roles of standards as technology infrastructure	161
16	The political economy of data communication standards	172
17	Coalitions and committees: how users get involved in information technology (IT) standardization	192
18	Standards, industrial policy and innovation	213
19	Conclusion	228
	Bibliography	236
	Author index	253
	Subject index	257