Economics of compatibility standards and competition in telecommunication networks
Information Economics and Policy - Special issue on the economics of standards
A new technonationalism?: China and the development of technical standards
Communications of the ACM - Transforming China
The evolution of China's mobile telecommunications industry: past, present and future
International Journal of Mobile Communications
How stakeholders view the impacts of international ICT standards
Telecommunications Policy
Business ecosystem strategies of mobile network operators in the 3G era: The case of China Mobile
Telecommunications Policy
An economic analysis of standards competition: The example of the ISO ODF and OOXML standards
Telecommunications Policy
Catching up through the development of technology standard: The case of TD-SCDMA in China
Telecommunications Policy
Telecommunications Policy
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This paper categorizes the multiple-faced roles of the government in technology standardization in the catching-up contexts. It presents a case that China has developed a third generation (3G) of mobile system, TD-SCDMA, and deployed it in the Chinese market. The authors attribute the success of this national standardization initiative to that the government is able to balance the interests of different stakeholders of mobile technology and market, and enroll them into the process of TD-SCDMA development and industrialization. The TD-SCDMA case demonstrates that the government in the standardization process can act as a project founder, risk undertaker, interest moderator, collaboration facilitator, and process monitor. Practical implications for developing countries in pursuing their indigenous innovation strategy are given.