The aim of the paper was to give deeper insights into business models of machine manufacturers providing product-related services for international markets. Product-related services might be seen -- as within this case study -- as an instrument to foster primary goods sales. The case study...

This paper discusses the state of innovation in the Egyptian information technology sector (IT) and the corresponding role of intellectual property (IP). The Egyptian ICT sector is an important contributor to economic growth and employment. Having established itself as a leading supplier of ICT...

The field of nanotechnology is characterized by its rapid development and a multitude of participating communities and different subareas of scientific and technical activities, challenges regarding the understanding, coordination and implementation of new technologies. By reviewing some of the...

This book addresses the new field of standards dynamics. It focuses in particular on the tension between standards and change. Standards are points of reference and should therefore be inherently stable (at least to a certain degree). However, technologies change at an increasing pace,...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the important topic of standards, which remains a vastly under-researched field of empirical inquiry. It presents a variety of interesting empirical analyses which reveal the driving forces and the economic impacts of standardization both in the...

This paper investigates sector-specific driving forces for the standardization activities at national standardization organizations. In the first part, theoretical hypotheses concerning sector-specific standardization are derived. The empirical test is performed by a two-step procedure. First,...