The development of formal ICT standards is a challenging form of collaborative innovation, combining consensus decision making and R&D rivalry. To supplement this formal standard setting process, it has thus become frequent that part of the involved firms creates ad hoc consortia to better align...

Contents: Foreword / by Richard Lipsey -- 1. Introduction : unravelling the relationship between standards and innovation / Richard Hawkins and Knut Blind -- Part I History, theory and evidence -- 2. Standards and innovation : a brief survey of empirical evidence and transmission mechanisms /...