Evaluation of Standards as Intellectual Properties

Abstract

Science and technology policy is often focused upon projects involving development of advanced technologies or hardware, partly because of their appeal to people interested in technical products but not in technology itself. In developing de jure standards, the importance of measurement standards, safety of chemical substances, biological resources information, materials, and geological information are widely recognized, because their value is easily understood to such a degree that some of them are distributed commercially, as it is the case for some data packages. Organizations for R&D, however, need for their operation intellectual properties of a different category, such as operation standards and instructions, standard analytical procedures, software safety analysis procedures, information security monitoring technology, and image analysis procedures. Some of them have been established as de facto standards, while others remain classified as organizational knowledge. Their values have not been measured as prices. This paper recommends to evaluate them, e. g. on occasions of restructuring national R&D organizations, in addition to the well-known kind of intellectual properties. It also proposes a system for this task, in addition to peer review of research outcomes, including development of portfolio analysis procedures for intellectual properties and establishment of an independent organization for evaluation. Which activity is evaluated again by other agency.