Standardization, open source and innovation: sketching the effect of IPR policies
Husovec, M.
(2019).
Standardization, open source and innovation: sketching the effect of IPR policies.
In
Contreras, J. L.
(Ed.),
The Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law: Further Intersections of Public and Private Law
(pp. 177 - 197).
Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316416785.011
(2019).
Standardization, open source and innovation: sketching the effect of IPR policies.
In
Contreras, J. L.
(Ed.),
The Cambridge Handbook of Technical Standardization Law: Further Intersections of Public and Private Law
(pp. 177 - 197).
Cambridge University Press.
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316416785.011
Open Source and standardization can be described as two “stewards of innovation.” Although practically two different ecosystems with diverging sets of rules and objectives, they, however, meet in their purpose to push the frontier of innovation. The latest technological developments are increasingly incentivizing firms and individuals participating in these ecosystems to work more closely together. However, under whose rules? And with what consequences for the innovation ecosystem? In this contribution, I try to sketch answers to these and related questions.