Formal Education
Workforce Training
Applied Research
Business Strategy
Issues
Integrating curriculum that
highlights how standards are
a key component of business
success today and there is a
strong link between business
strategy, competitiveness
and innovation.
Private and public sector
efforts to address skills
improvement related to the
links between standards and
business strategy,
innovation and
competitiveness.
Real world case studies
that target needs of
business decision makers
and illustrate key business
strategy decisions
Legal Issues
Standardization activities
implicate many areas of the
law including: Competition
law; Intellectual Property law
and Contract law (to name
only three).
Improve private and public
sector efforts to address
skills improvement related to
the links between standards
and legal issues
Research agenda that
incorporates multidisciplinary approach,
examining real world
aspects of standardization
process and how it
intersects with competition
law, intellectual property
law contract law and other
bodies of law
Policymaker Issues
Education programs need to
teache policy makers about
the technical, business
strategy and legal aspects to
standardization, as well as a
host of international policy
issues (from international
trade to domestic
competitiveness).
improve private and public
sector efforts to address
skills improvement related to
the links between standards
and public policy issues
research agenda that
incorporates multidisciplinary approach and
reflects the experiences
and knowledge needs of
standards practitioners
and policymakers
Engineering Issues