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Purpose/objectives: many of the products and services we use are designed and developed following International Standards like ISO (The International Organization for Standardization, ISO). Standards affect most of the global trade and represent a fundamental driving force for new technologies. Standards provide an adaptive and responsive approach to manage innovation in the new economy, for this reason, the creation and use of consistent standards, through the input of both the private sector and governments, is fundamental for the medium to the long-term sustainable development of the new economy.
Giungato et al. (Thu,) studied this question.