International Workshop

Evolution of Technology and Standards

  • Program

Information

  • Time and Date: 12:50-18:10, Thursday, April 12 and 10:00-18:10, Friday, April 13
  • Venue: Mercury Tower 7F Conference Room, Hitotsubashi University Kunitachi Campus
  • Language: English (no interpretation available)
  • Fee: Free
  • Host: Hitotsubashi University (Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research) and Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)

Agenda April 12

12:50 - 13:00 Opening Remarks

NAGAOKA Sadao (Program Director, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)

13:00 - 15:20 Session Ⅰ

Chair: ISHIKAWA Jota (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)

13:00 - 14:00 Intellectual Property Rights Management in Standards-setting Organizations: The review by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Keith MASKUS (University of Colorado)

14:00 - 14:40 How Are the Essential Patents of Standards Generated? Evidence from MPEG2, DVD, and WCDMA

NAGAOKA Sadao (Program Director, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)

14:40 - 15:20 Quantitative Measurement of Standardization Activities in Organizations

TAMURA Suguru (Waseda University)

15:20 - 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 - 18:10 Session Ⅱ

Chair: OHNO Yuka (Hokkaido University)

15:50 - 16:50 Knowledge Positions in High-tech Markets: Trajectories, standards, strategies, and true innovators

Rudi BEKKERS (Eindhoven University of Technology)

16:50 - 17:30 Essential Patents and Standard Dynamics

Justus BARON (MINES Paris Tech)

17:30 - 18:10 The Impacts of Attendees, Core Technological Competencies, and Knowledge Spillovers on Essential Intellectual Property Rights: Empirical analysis on a wireless communications standard

Byeongwoo KAN (University of Tokyo)

18:10 RIETI Reception (Mercury Tower 7F)

Agenda April 13

10:00 - 12:20 Session Ⅲ

Chair: MUTO Shigeo (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

10:00 - 10:40 Patent Infringement Suits in Japan

YUZUKI Takahiro (Kyoto University)

10:40 - 11:20 Intellectual Property Rights Protection in the Software Market

ARAI Yasuhiro (Aomori Public College)

11:20 - 12:20 Promoting Competition by Coordinating Prices: When rivals share intellectual property

Nancy GALLINI (University of British Columbia)

12:20 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:20 Session Ⅳ

Chair: OKAMURO Hiroyuki (Hitotsubashi University)

13:00 - 14:00 Patent Pools and Innovation Incentives

Jay Pil CHOI (University of New South Wales / Michigan State University)

14:00 - 14:40 Informal Consortia and the R&D Cost of Standard Setting

Yann MENIERE (MINES Paris Tech)

14:40 - 15:20 Standards and Innovation

AOKI Reiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)

15:20 - 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 - 18:10 Session Ⅴ

Chair: Branislav HAZUCHA (Hokkaido University)

15:50 - 16:50 Intellectual Property Disclosure in Standards Development

Arianna MARTINELLI (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)

16:50 - 17:30 Standards as a Knowledge Source for R&D: A first look at their incidence and impacts based on the inventor survey and patent bibliographic data

TSUKADA Naotoshi (Fellow, RIETI)

17:30 - 18:10 Standardization in Global and Japanese Mobile Manufacturers' R&D Portfolio: An empirical study through patent data

Tingting WANG (Hitotsubashi University)

18:10 Closing Remarks

AOKI Reiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)