Foreword

It´s odd, somehow. When I applied for EU funding for the first SIIT conference, the proposal was rejected not least because of one evaluator´s comment that no link exists between standardisation and innovation and that, accordingly, the whole idea of a conference looking at these two processes together was void (eventually, the European Commission did fund the conference, albeit through a different channel). So, for 14 years now, attendees of the SIIT conferences (and many others) have talked about standardisation and innovation and, particularly, about the link that exists between them. Yet, the ‘pillars’ upon which the Digital Agenda for Europe is based still separate standardisation and innovation ……‥