At a time when the high-tech industry has increasingly demanded harmonized standards, China has signaled its intention to follow a different direction. China's recent actions seeking to set its own unique standards instead of adopting international standards shifts focus to the impact on...

This chapter focuses on a subject that might be considered as somewhat specialized or even 'arcane' in the technology transfer debate, but one which I will argue is really quite central to facilitating technology transfer to developing and least developing countries: my topic is technology...