In 2011, right after Michael Murphree and I released a working paper on international technology standards, I got a call from the U.S. Senate. Shortly thereafter, I was called to testify on the subject in front of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
The result was that the commission sponsored us to perform a larger research undertaking on our work. At the same time, the U.S. National Academies asked us to join a multicountry effort to look into national strategies of technology standard-setting bodies and their economic implications.
