Innovation is widely recognized as one of the essential drivers of successful business and a

key contributor to a nation’s productivity and economic and social development. Finding

ways of fostering innovation is a central concern for both forward-thinking companies and

governments. In many countries there is a strong focus on public funding of research and

development and on intellectual property rights (IPR) as instruments of innovation policy and

business strategy.

Whilst it is clear that economic and societal benefits from research can only be achieved

through their successful transfer into innovative products and processes, this critical aspect –

which is the one to which standardization contributes most – is often neglected.

The conference was designed precisely to address this subject, promoting the dialogue

between researchers and standards experts from companies, government and academia.

The overall objective was to help discover the multi-faced relations between standardization

and innovation, learning from success and failures, identifying and promoting optimal forms

of collaboration between research and standards development.

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