Topic: “Measuring Societal Impacts of Standards” Speaker: Paul Wiegmann (Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology) Date: July 8 (Monday), 2024 from 15:30 to 17:00 Venue: onsite IIR Laboratory 1 (Room#119) of the first floor of the IIR building Organizer: Byeongwoo Kang Abstract: Society faces existential challenges, such as global warming, demographic change and digital innovations. Standards help solving problems and reaping opportunities. They have long been recognised as important, from technological, business, and economic perspectives, but clear evidence about their societal impact is still missing. Against this background, we carried out this project to get a clearer view of how standards impact society. We conducted a pre-study of 48 standards,…