9 July 2010
Economic and social benefits of standards
Day dedicated to present and discuss research, studies, methodologies and projects covering the theme, with particular attention to the cooperation between International Standardization organizations and national standards bodies with academic institutions
Morning: Experiences, studies and methodologies
8:15 – 9:00 Registration
Chair: Bernard Dugerdil, Standards & Strategy Senior Manager, Freescale Semiconductor
9:00 Valuation of microeconomic benefits of standardization work in a multinational corporation
Markus Reigl, Head, Corporate Standardization, Siemens AG, Germany
9:30 Benefits of participation in standards development and in the use of standards
Neil Reeve, Standards Manager, Royal Dutch Shell, The Netherlands, and Chairman of ISO/TC 67 (petroleum and gas sector)
10:00 The ISO Methodology to assess the economic benefits of standards
Daniele Gerundino, Strategic Adviser to the ISO Secretary-General
Michael Hilb, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Lecturer in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Fribourg and St. Gallen, Switzerland
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 The Macroeconomic Studies on the Economic Benefits of Standards: A Summary, Assessment and Outlook
Knut Blind, Chair of Innovation Economics, Berlin University of Technology, Faculty of Economics and Management, Germany, and Chair of Standardisation, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
11:30 Assessing costs and benefits of participation in international standardization
Henk de Vries, Associate Professor of Standardization at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
12:00 The return on investment from standards development and implementation: NIST’s case studies
Erik Puskar, Programme Manager, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon: Open discussion
14:00 Open discussion on how standards institutes, companies and academia can develop cooperation to progress with the development of studies and methods to highlight and measure the economic and social benefits of standards.
15:00 Closure of the workshop