ICT, Smart Systems, and Standardization

Abstract

This chapter first provides a brief introduction to the links between standards and standardization, innovation, and economics. This will be followed a description of the complex web of Standards Setting Organizations (SSOs) in the ICT/smart systems sector. Subsequently, a flexible tool to describe the characteristics of an SSO will be discussed. This will be followed by the description of a typical standards setting process. These three aspects are only parts of the fairly complex task of standardization management, which will be described next. The subsequent section will briefly cover national standardization strategies. Finally, some likely future research directions are sketched.