Infrastructures such as communication, broadcasting, transportation, electricity, and waterways are complex, large socio-technical systems. Involved are institutions and technologies, both of which seem resilient to any significant changes. They evolve slowly.
Standards are crucial to infrastructure development.
The aim of this workshop is, firstly, to deepen our insight in this area of standardisation. Secondly, together we may provide the theoretical and empirical material that is necessary to assess whether standards can be regarded as change agents for infrastructure development. Influence of standardisation on competition between infrastructure subsystems Intellectual Property Rights and infrastructure standards EU policy and the compatibility of infrastructures Suggestions for related topics are most welcome.