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| The
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research |
| The
Fraunhofer Society maintains roughly 80 research units
in Germany and undertakes applied research of direct utility
to private and public entreprise and of wide benefit to
society. ISI is an institute of the Fraunhofer Society
devoted to socio-economic research in the fields of science
and technology. FhG-ISI has a long experience in the management
of international consortia. |
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Contact: Dr.
Knut Blind
Since 1996 Knut Blind has been a senior researcher at
the Fraunhofer-Institute Systems and Innovation research,
and in 2001 he was appointed deputy head of the department
"Technology Analysis and Innovation Strategies".
He is very active in economic standardisation research,
meanwhile also in the field of service standards, and
related issues like IPR and trade, especially atCommunity
level. Furthermore, FhG-ISI has a long experience in
managing European projects with several partners, which
is a sound basis for co-ordinating NO-REST.
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The Consortium partners are the following: |
| Aachen
University |
| Aachen
University is a leading – and the largest –
Technical University in Germany. Its Computer Science
department has been recognised as one of the foremost
departments in its field in Europe. Areas of research
interest and expertise include mobile networks, distributed
systems, network security, and standards research. |
Contact: Dr.
Kai Jakobs
Dr. Kai Jakobs joined Aachen University’s Computer
Science Department as a member of technical staff in 1985.
Current research focuses on various aspects of standards
and the standardisation process. In addition, he has been
involved in a number of projects on various aspects of
communication networks and intelligent transport systems.
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| TNO
Institute for Strategy and Policy |
| The
TNO Institute for Strategy, Technology and Policy (TNO-STB)
is the social sciences research arm of the Netherlands
Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). It
provides a crucial link between strategic policy and the
development of technology and services based on new technology.
Its unique position within the larger TNO organisation
enables the Institute to make use of multidisciplinary
teams that match expertise in the social sciences with
expertise in natural sciences and engineering. |
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Contact: Dr.
Richard Hawkins
Dr. Richard Hawkins is a political economist specialising
in electronic network issues. Currently he is Senior
Strategist, Networked Economy and Innovation at the
Institutefor Strategy, Technology and Policy of the
Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
(TNO-STB). He
has researched standards issues extensively for nearly
15 years, but his work also encompasses electronic business
(including business modelling) and he has developed
particular expertise in assessing the socio-economic
impacts of high-technology.
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| Delft
University of Technology |
| Founded
in 1862, Delft University of Technology is the oldest,
largest, and most comprehensive technical university in
the Netherlands. The faculty of Technology, Policy and
Management (TPM) is one of the university's younger faculties.
TPM is an engineering faculty, i.e., its primary focus
is on problem solving, design and development at the interface
of technology and society (i.e., complex socio-technical
problems). One such problem area is technical standardisation. |
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Contact: Dr.
Tineke M. Egyedi
Dr. Tineke M. Egyedi is a senior researcher on standardisation
at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Among other things, she participated in two European
multimedia projects and in two European standardisation
projects (i.e. on consortium standardisation and user
participation). Her past activities include the review
of EU projects and the organisation of international
workshops and conference sessions. She has published
widely (e.g. books, policy reports, chapters and articles),
and has edited special journal issues and books. At
present, she is associate editor of two international
journals on IT standardisation, and member of several
international research networks, mostly on standardisation.
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| NIFU
STEP |
As
of 1 May 2004, the STEP for Innovation Research formally
joined NIFU (the Norwegian Institute for Studies in Research
and Higher Education) to form a new institute, NIFU STEP
. This followed a short affiliation with SINTEF Foundation
which had to be terminated due to unforeseen problems
affecting research activities.
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Contact: Mr.
Eric J. Iversen
Eric J. Iversen is a senior researcher in the field
of innovation and the economics of technological change
at the STEP Centre for Innovation Research (SINTEF).
His work centres on the framework conditions of technological
change, with particular focus on intellectual property
regimes and the standardisation of network technologies,
and their interaction in the contexts of innovation
and innovation policy. His main research interest has
involved the interrelationship between standards and
IPRs.Eric has published both quantitative and qualitative
analyses involving standardisation, patenting and their
inter-relationship.
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| The
University of Edinburgh |
| The
University of Edinburgh has built an international reputation
for excellence in research and teaching. Its The Research
Centre for Social Sciences was established in 1984 to
promote high quality research across the Faculty of Social
Sciences by promoting and hosting multidisciplinary research
and by offering specialist advice on methodology, funding,
research policy. |
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Contact: Prof.
Robin Williams
Robin Williams is Professor of Social Research on Technology
and Director of the Research Centre for Social Sciences/Technology
Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh. His interdisciplinary
research into ‘the social shaping of technology’
over 20 years has focused upon the interplay between
business organisation and ‘technical’ factors
in the development and implementation of a range of
commercial IT applications including Banking and EFTPoS
systems, integrated company information systems (e.g.
Enterprise Resource Planning), Electronic Commerce,
Multimedia and Internet applications. He is PI in the
EPSRC-funded £6.8 Million Dependability Interdisciplinary
Research Collaboration at Edinburgh and four other HEIs
which addresses the social and technical origins of
undependability and how they may be tackled.
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| European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) ; subcontractor
to RWTH |
| ETSI
is a not for profit organisation whose mission is to produce
the telecommunications and information technologies standards
that will be used throughout Europe and beyond. ETSI is
a formally recognised European Standardisation Body. ETSI
unites 688 members from 55 countries inside and outside
Europe. ETSI technical bodies work in close collaboration
with the other organisations involved in the development
of specifications, and have specific links with world-wide
standardisation's bodies such as ITU-T, ISO; IEC, W3C
and IETF. |
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Contact: Mr.
Yves Chauvel
Yves Chauvel is Director for European co-ordination
in ETSI. He has been active in standardisation since
more than 25 years. He joined the Secretariat of ETSI,
the European Telecommunications Standards Institute,
upon its creation in 1988 as a member of the management
team. His responsibilities include the co-ordination
of the standardisation activity between ETSI and the
other European bodies, CEN and CENELEC, as well the
EC on regulatory related aspects.
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