Eric J. IversenNordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education | NIFU · Statistics and Indicators
Eric J. Iversen
PhD Economics of Innovation
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Introduction
Education
September 2006 - November 2011
August 1993 - November 1994
August 1986 - June 1990
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Publications (53)
The relationship between standards and intellectual property rights (IPRs) is a complementary but troubled one. The way it
is managed affects the way stakeholders contribute to standards and may ultimately affect the way some technologies and even
industries evolve. A spate of recent legal controversies has been accompanied by the emergence of new...
Purpose
– The purpose of this mainly conceptual paper is to analyze key changes in the institutional setting for standardization and to discuss what they indicate about further developments of the mobile sector. The intention is that this conceptual analysis will complement and contextualize the analysis of Nordic players found in the other papers...
As the commercialization of academic research has risen as a target area in many countries, the need for better empirical
data collection to evaluate policy changes on this front has increasingly been recognized. This need is exemplified in the
Norwegian case where legislative changes went into effect in 2003 expressly to encourage greater commerci...
In this article we examine the legitimacy of committee standardization as an alternative to pure market processes of technical standardization of information and communication technology (ICT). We argue that not only mandatory (regulative) but also voluntary (coordinative) standards require some kind of democratic legitimacy. While the question of...
This paper pilots an approach for using trademark data to study regional diversification. Bridging the respective literatures, we develop a regional trademarking-intensity measure that can shed new light on how different regions diversify while also accounting for changing industrial structures and income levels (regional GDP). The approach reveals...
In this chapter, we argue that policy-making aiming to achieve environmentally sustainable transitions of the economy is in need of a solid empirical evidence base. Conventional measurement concepts used for example by the EU based on sector-classifications deliver highly biased pictures. We propose measurement concepts based on the use of green sk...
This paper evaluates how policy shaped the emergence of electric mobility in three countries, Norway, the Netherlands and Denmark, between 2010 and 2015. Whereas previous studies have looked at the effects of separate policy instruments, this paper gives insights in the interaction effects of instruments on the diffusion of battery electric cars be...
The emergence of open science and new data practices is changing the way research is done. Opportunities to access data through purpose built platforms and repositories, combined with emerging data and meta-data curation practices are expanding data availability in many fields. This paper presents a conceptual framework for studying scientific rese...
Our study explores research avenues that can help policymakers to assess regional capabilities for 'green' economic restructuring. After reviewing the relevant literature, and envisioning research paths which consider both market transactions and externalities, we propose possible ways to translate past research findings into novel statistical tool...
Addressing climate change is one of the grand societal challenges of our time. It requires a concerted effort of innovation, industrial and environmental policy. In order to achieve green restructuring at regional level, which constitutes an essential element of sustainability transitions, transformation processes must occur across the entire innov...
This report presents and analyses the internationalization of business R&D investments in Europe in light of earlier work. Using established metrics, a composite approach is employed to better understand the distribution and development of this important phenomena over time. Core and secondary data-sources are used to analyse developments in the co...
This is the introduction of a special issue of KTP on Coordination and Control in the 'Information Age'. see http://link.springer.com/journal/12130/17/2/page/1
The formative EU transport policy focuses on region-wide initiatives to promote more sustainable transportation, including electrical mobility. The vow to integrate or coordinate the ongoing development of electrical mobility into a Europe-wide recharging-infrastructure confronts a number of challenges. As a region, Europe consists of a range of na...
Geographies: distances, cities and rural areas Well-connected and 'compact' country with rather short distances and no mountains Long distances and many mountains, some more densely populated regions in the South Renewable electricity production Wind power – fluctuating In 2011, the share of renewable sources in electricity generation varied from 3...
As modern industrial products become increasingly complex, their development and production must draw on a wide range of external ideas, component technologies and complementary capabilities. In this landscape it is virtually impossible for any single firm to keep abreast of all relevant technological advances. This means that ‘what firms do’ invol...
This paper presents the results of a pan-Nordic study to explore how small and medium-size enterprises use IPR. It is a pilot study that demonstrates a commonly developed approach designed to overcome the barriers that hinder study of IPR use by small firms. The pilot study focuses particularly on patenting, based on the common approach linking nat...
The chapter argues that any distinction between “e-business” and infrastructure” is artificial. It shows that the lower-level techncial standards that make up the ICT infrastructure exert a direct impact on the e-business standards and systems that are using it. Accordingly, any assessment of the effect of standards on e-business has to take into a...
The standards setting process relies to an increasing degree on successfully integrating up-to-date research and development results (R&D). The successful interaction between research and standards can provide important social benefits. But, to do so, a number of challenges need to be faced. One key and persistent challenge is to provide the condit...
This paper reports results of a survey among patent inventors from Norwegian public research organisations. The survey covered motives, support structure and further development of the patents. We focus on determinants of success criteria for academic patents like granted patents, extension to other countries, development of prototype or saleable p...
This paper analyses the propensity to withdraw European patent applications within a regional sample of Italian applicants. The procedure for obtaining a granted patent from the EPO is composed of a series of sequential and selective steps imposing additional costs to the applicants. Accordingly, we argue that early withdrawals - i.e. those occurri...
This paper takes a fresh and comprehensive look at how intellectual property rights (IPR) interact with formal standardisation activities. The interaction of these two institutions is integral to the working of the innovation infrastructure. Since the 1980s, this has especially been true for industries involving strong network effects where an incr...
The way information and communication technology (ICT) develops can promote or hinder the democratic potential of this critical societal infrastructure. Concerns about the role standards development organizations (SDOs) play in this context predate the "digital age" but are reemerging amid substantial changes in the institutional landscape of stand...
Patents and other industrial IPRs have the potential to undermine the collective pursuit of a technical standard that might serve the common interests of the sector or industry. This tension between the individual and the collective, between the development of technology and its diffusion, is by no means new; it is an inherent feature of standard d...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship
between technical standardization and innovation in the ICT sector. In
many ways, this exercise involves revisiting the themes or sub-themes of
much work already done in this growing area. In others, it involves
linking the dominantly economics standards-oriented literature with
systems-o...
This article focuses on the interaction between intellectual property rights (IPRs) re- gimes and committee-based standards development organisations (SDOs) in terms of the commodification of knowledge. IPRs and SDOs are institutions that are de- signed to codify technical knowledge with quite different purposes though. The re- sulting documents de...
This paper makes the assumption that Norwegian patenting in the US reflects a quasi-universe of Norwegian technological capabilities. Based on this assumption, the paper combines a "patent-bibliometrics" and a "technometrics" approach to study other relevant bodies of knowledge these capabilities build upon. In order to study interactions at the "s...
In today’s environment of rapidly evolving information and communication technologies (ICTs), technical standardization is said to be confronted by a “minefield” of intellectual property rights (IPRs). Patents and other industrial IPRs that might belong to individual developers of technology have the potential to undermine the collective pursuit of...
In today’s environment of rapidly evolving information and communication technologies (ICTs), technical standardization is said to be confronted by a “minefield” of intellectual property rights (IPRs). Patents and other industrial IPRs that might belong to individual developers of technology have the potential to undermine the collective pursuit of...
During the early 1990s, several international standards development organizations including the IEEE re-approached how they deal with intellectual property rights. The search for new procedures by SDOs is a function of comprehensive institutional and market changes associated with the rapidly evolving ICT field. The changes affect both how formal s...
Formålet med denne undersøkelsen har vært å innhente informasjon om utvikling og fornyelse i NHOs medlemsbedrifter. Undersøkelsen er gjennomført som en fulltelling for de 17 NHO-landsforeninger som deltar i FIIN-prosjektet, med en samlet svarprosent på 23% (1.743 bedrifter).Selv om det er til dels betydelig variasjon i svarprosent etter landsforeni...
The objective of this report is to describe and analyse policy debates on information and communication technology (ICT) in Norwegian and international policy milieus. While there are many directions from which such debates could be analysed, we approach the issue in terms of basic policy concepts, by considering how policymakers see the economic a...
As the commercialization of academic research has risen as a target area in many countries, the need for better empirical data collection to evaluate policy changes on this front has increasingly been recognized. When new legislation went into effect in Norway on 1 January 2003 with the objective of changing the way researchers in the large univers...
The standards setting process relies to an increasing degree on successfully integrating— or otherwise taking into consideration— up-to-date research and development results (R&D). The successful interaction between research and standards can provide important benefits to society. There is however a number of challenges that are currently hampering...
Denne rapporten problematiserer hvilken rolle tradisjonell postvirksomhet vil kunne spille i det globale informasjonssamfunnet.Form�let med denne rapporten er: � beskrive sentrale utviklingstrekk i markedssegmenter for elektronisk informasjonsformidling og deres relevanse for tradisjonell postvirksomhet; og foreta en diskusjon av hvordan overnevnte...
Organized research activity is often characterized as a tale of two cultures: the fundamental or basic science of academia as against the applied, problem-solving R&D of industry. Although the two cultures have certainly never been as isolated from each other as the label ‘pure science’ would suggest, they have traditionally demonstrated fundamenta...
Firm-size is one of several variables within a larger system where technology, institutions, demand, strategic decisions and random processes play central roles in shaping overall economic outcomes. (Sutton, 1998) This chapter starts from the premise that the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)— and the conditions for their p...
Projects
Projects (6)
RISIS2 gathers 18 partners aiming to transform the field of STI studies into an advanced research community.
This step change is achieved by:
(i) developing an e-infrastructure that supports full virtual transnational access by researchers,
(ii) providing a vastly enlarged set of services tailored to field-specific needs (for problem-based integration of datasets, for exploring open data, and for
supporting analytical capabilities of researchers),
(iii) maintaining datasets dealing with firm innovation capacities, public research developments, R&I outputs and projects, and policy learning,
(iv) developing new datasets on 4 key issues for research and policy (social innovation, non technological innovation, the role of PhDs in society, portfolios of public funding instruments).
We want to study research avenues for the assessment of regional capabilities for “green” economic restructuring.
