Education on standardization as an input to research on standardization: A success story

At the faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, education about standardization focuses on market based standardization and particularly onfactors for standards battles. We have developed a general (award winning) course on technology and strategy in the first year of the M.Sc. Management of Technology and we have developed a specific course on standards battles in the specialization stage of the master program that builds upon and extents the knowledge taught in the general course. We provide students with a detailed understanding of the specifics of market based standardization. An important part of the course on technology and strategy focuses on identifying the reasons why most industries adopt a dominant standard and why a particular firms’ technology is adopted as the dominant standard. Furthermore, different factors that affect the outcome of technology battles are examined. At the end of the first year of the M.Sc. Management of Technology, students will choose a specialization. Students that choose to specialize in innovation management will follow the basic course on standards battles, technology patterns and business ecosystems. In this course, students study how the network of stakeholders supporting the competing standards changes over time during the technology life cycle and how this impacts dominance of the competing standards. What makes education on standardization at Delft University of Technology so innovative? First, in our courses we apply state of the art research on standardization and we constantly update the teaching material. So our education is strongly research driven. Second, our education results in novel input for research through empirical material gathered in the courses and in the master theses. In this paper we will explain each course in detail providing information on course objectives, format, organization, and grading. We will provide students evaluations where possible. We will conclude with a discussion on how education on standardization provides valuable input to our research on standardization.Infrastructures, Systems and ServicesTechnology, Policy and Managemen

Positioning the Journal of ICT Standardisation

Next to the Journal of ICT Standardisation (JIS), three other scientific journals exist that address ICT standardisation. In previous papers we have analysed two of these, International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research and Computer Standards and Interfaces, in the form of a citation analysis. In this analysis the main issue was to analyze to which extent the journals have a technical or a non-technical focus. This paper adds the analysis of the third journal: IEEE Communications Magazine. JIS itself is too young to already do such an analysis for. However, building on the analysis of the three other journals we discuss the current and possible future positioning of the JIS. We conclude that JIS can position itself as the journal that provides practitioners with comprehensive insights of ICT standardization based on sound academic research.Economics of Technology and Innovatio

Who’s pulling the strings? The influence of network structure on standard dominance

Innovative systems and infrastructures require generally accepted common compatibility standards to enable components of such systems to interoperate. In some cases, various standards are developed by competing standards organizations, often resulting in standards battles. This paper focuses on factors that affect the outcome of these standards battles, and, specifically, on the effect of the structure of the industry-wide standards networks on standard dominance. The empirical context is the consumer electronics, telecommunications, and ICT arenas. We conduct a study of 103 standards organizations from 2000 to 2011. We find support for the hypothesis that standards that are supported by standards organizations that have a central position in the industry-wide standards network have a high chance of achieving dominance.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Economics of Technology and Innovatio

LED lighting in Asia: how standardization regimes influence stakeholders in standard setting

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An exploration of necessary conditions for standard success for complex systems

Many markets are characterized by increasing returns to adoption and, often, in such markets standards battles are fought (Suarez, 2004; Schilling 1998; Van de Kaa 2011). Literature on standards selection predominantly focuses on standards that are part of a new single product or system, such as the internet or a telecommunications network (Bekkers 2002; Funk 2002). In this paper we explore factors for standard dominance for systems that connect multiple already existing subsystems and new subsystems to form a new system. We conduct an analysis of six standards battles for complex systems that have been reported in the literature and find three necessary conditions for standard success for complex systems; technological superiority, network diversity and stakeholder commitment. We contribute to the ongoing research on standards battles by studying success factors for standards for complex systems. Practitioners that are involved in developing standards for such systems can utilize the results from this research in their strategies.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Economics of Technology and Innovatio

Exploring necessary conditions for standard success for complex systems

Many markets are characterized by increasing returns to adoption and, often, in such markets standards battles are fought (Suarez, 2004; Schilling 1998; Van de Kaa 2011). Literature on standards selection predominantly focuses on standards that are part of a new single product or system, such as the internet or a telecommunications network (Bekkers 2002; Funk 2002). In this paper we explore factors for standard dominance for systems that connect multiple already existing subsystems and new subsystems to form a new system. We conduct an analysis of six standards battles for complex systems that have been reported in the literature and find three necessary conditions for standard success for complex systems; technological superiority, network diversity and stakeholder commitment. We contribute to the ongoing research on standards battles by studying success factors for standards for complex systems. Practitioners that are involved in developing standards for such systems can utilize the results from this research in their strategies.Economics of Technology and Innovatio

Strategies for the emergence of a dominant design for heat storage systems

An important component of sustainable home energy systems is the self-sufficient generation and usage of energy. Although sustainable solutions to both generation and usage of energy in homes have been extensively studied in the past, the storage of energy has only scarcely been studied. This paper focuses specifically on thermal energy storage. Three competing designs are currently available: sensible, latent and thermochemical heat storage systems. The question is which will become the dominant design. Relevant antecedents for design dominance are explored and applied to this case in order to determine their weights. Furthermore, it is assessed which of these three alternatives will have the highest chance of achieving market dominance. Technological characteristics are most important and latent heat storage technology has the highest likelihood of achieving design dominance. The paper contributes to ongoing research that attempts to assign weights to factors for technology dominance in different arenas.Economics of Technology and Innovatio

Modelling interface standards battles : A retroductive system dynamics approach

Competition between technology standards for market share is a complicated phenomenon where a large number of factors have an impact on the outcome according to the literature. Inevitably studying their influence, for example the timing of market entry, is a challenge. The generic simulation model presented here builds on previous work and is applied to four cases of standard competition from the literature. Following a retroductive research design, reproducing the results of each case the model provides support for the soundness of the underlying theoretical framework used to analyse the case studies. It thus increases the confidence in its validity and provides a formal basis for further empirical and theoretical work.Policy AnalysisEconomics of Technology and Innovatio

Factors for winning Format Battles: A modelling approach

There is considerable literature on format competition with several review articles establishing lists of factors that are thought to apply broadly in such contexts. However, the literature is not unequivocal regarding some factors that apparently can have a reinforcing or balancing effect on format adoption and dominance. This paper attempts to transfer a recent theoretical framework proposed in the literature to a system dynamics generic model. It is intended to validate the hypothesis that the factors listed in the literature actually result in format dominance. Furthermore, it will allow an exploration into whether there are other intermediary factors underlying those listed as important, and look at what the ambiguity of some of them implies for the dynamics of format competition.Multi Actor SystemsTechnology, Policy and Managemen