INTEREST
INTEgrating REsearch and STandardisation

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News & Events:

The Advance Programme of the final INTEREST Workshop, to be held in Brussels on 9 November, is available here. In addition to presenting selected project findings the WS will feature an invited talk on 'The needs for and of standardisation in nanotechnology', and a round-table discussion with experts in the field. For free registration please send me an e-mail.

INTEREST was well represented at this year's conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), held in Lausanne (Switzerland), 23 - 26 August. Consortium members had organised two sessions, one of which was entirely devoted to the discussion of various aspects of the interface between standardisation and research. In total, four related presentations were done by consortium members; they were complementd by a presentation by our sister project, Copras.

Standards research - results and their deployment (click here to retrieve all documents).

Session 1: Standards, organisation and policy

Organisers: Kai Jakobs & Martina Gerst
Chair: Martina Gerst

Bekkers, Rudi; Iversen, Eric; Blind, Knut: Patent pools and standardisation: Coordination mechanisms for multi-party IPR holders.
The full paper is here.

Spirco, Jaroslav: Can standards help? Flexibility and change of large infrastructure systems.

Jakobs, Kai: Standards policy in Europe - some selected issues

Session 2: Tear Down These Walls: Opening Up the Barrier Between Standardisation and Research

Organisers: Kai Jakobs & Martina Gerst
Chair: Kai Jakobs

Blind, Knut; Gauch, Stephan: Missing links between research and standardisation in nanotechnology in Germany ?

Brusse, Bart: COPRAS : The Cooperation Platform for Research and Standards - Improving the interface between ICT research and standardisation.

Coenen, Heide: The interface between research and standardisation - a case study approach

Gauch, Stephan: Towards a theoretical framework for assessing the link between research and standardisation


Some of the project's findings were presented at the annual conference of the European Academy for Standardization (EURAS). To order a copy of the proceedings, please send a message to the editor.