Technical standards in telecommunications - the central focus of this paper - were traditionally developed by official government accredited or intergovernmental organizations. In the last two decades, however, private forums and consortia of standardization have evolved which initiated a shift...

Modern societies regard knowledge as a production factor in its own right. The marketis the prevailing governance mode of their economies, and it is supposed to be the mostappropriate mode of trading and allocating knowledge assets, too. But socio-economicresearch has revealed that knowledge...