Abstract
This paper describes the Searle Center Database on Technology Standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs). This database combines comprehensive information on technology standards, SSO membership, and SSO characteristics in a format designed for economic research. In particular, the database includes data on quantifiable characteristics of 797,711 standard documents issued by 615 SSOs, institutional membership in a sample of 191 Standards Organizations, and the rules of 36 SSOs on standard adoption procedures, standard-essential patents (SEPs), participation, and openness. Using the Internet Archives, we track both institutional membership and the SSO rules and procedures over time since the inception of the Archives in 1996. We identify 67,417 entities participating in at least one Standards Organization. The paper describes how to combine these data with other new databases on standard-related patents and standardization processes at 3GPP; and sketches avenues for empirical research.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 462-503 |
| Number of pages | 42 |
| Journal | Journal of Economics and Management Strategy |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Sep 1 2018 |
Funding
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is making the database described in this paper available to academic researchers beginning in March 2018. All requests should be sent to [email protected]. The authors thank two anonymous referees, Pere Arque Castells, Stuart Graham, Matt Spitzer, and participants at the Searle Center Annual Research Roundtable on Technology Standards as well as the Academy of Management Workshop on Open Datasets for Innovation Research for helpful comments and discussions. We thank the early users of the Searle Center database for their support and feedback. We also thank Georgios Askalidis, Tony Chen, Jiayi Wang, Lisa Izquierdo, Tianqi Jiang, Eric Liu, and Mike Rizza for research assistance. Special thanks also to Tim Pohlmann and researchers at TU Berlin for sharing data and for the permission to use data collected for joint research. We are grateful to Qualcomm for a research grant for the project on Innovation Economics. We also thank the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth for their support of our research. The opinions expressed in this paper are solely those of the author and not necessarily those of any other individual or organization.
Keywords
- database
- standard-setting organizations
- technology standards
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Business, Management and Accounting
- Economics and Econometrics
- Strategy and Management
- Management of Technology and Innovation