Knut Blind () (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Abstract
This paper investigates the impact of intellectual property rights on the propensity to standardise at standardisation development organisations. First, different strategies to protect intellectual property and their use in the manufacturing sector in Germany are discussed. Secondly, institutional arrangements concerning the problem of intellectual property rights in standardisation processes are presented. In the following part, theoretical hypotheses concerning the impact of patent protection on sector-specific standardisation are derived. On basis of 20 sectors and seven countries, these hypotheses are empirically tested in a pool model. The results show that innovative and R&D-intensive sectors standardise very actively. However, patents play a more important and ambiguous role, because too much patent protection is hindering standardisation processes. After a summary of the results, recommendations for future standardisation practice are given.
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