Rudi Bekkers

University Professor in Standards and Intellectual Property

Below is an overview of books and book chapters.

Blanco, G. de Coninck, H. (Coordinating Lead Authors), Agbemabiese, L., Diagne. E.H.M., Anadon, L.D., Lim, Y.S., Pengue, W.A., Sagar, A., Sugiyama, T., Tanaka, K., Verdolini, E., Witajewski-Baltvilks, J. (Lead Authors), Aleluia Reis, L., Babiker, M., Bai, X., Bekkers, R., Bertoldi, P. Burch, S., Cabeza, L.F., Caiafa, C. Cohen, B. Creutzig, F. Meza, M.J.F., Galeazzi, C., Geels, F. Grubb, M., Halsnæs, K., Jupesta, J. Kilkiş, S., Koenig, M., Köhler, J., Malhotra, A., Masanet, E., McDowall, W., Milojevic-Dupont, N., Mitchell, C., Nemet, G., Nilsson, L.J., Patt, A., Perkins, P., Roy, J., Safarzynska, K., Saheb, Y., Sharifi, A., Surana, K., van Aalst, M. van Diemen, R., Winkler, H. (Contributing Authors). Chapter 16: Innovation, technology development and transfer. In IPCC (2022), Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Working Group III contribution to the WGIII Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Abdelkafi, N., Bekkers, R. N. A., Bolla, R., Rodriguez-Ascaso, A. & Wetterwald, M. (2021). Understanding ICT Standardization: Principles and Practice (2nd edition). Sofia Antipolis, France: ETSI. 280 p. ISBN: 979-10-92620-50-1. Open Access publication.

La H.L., Bekkers R. (2021). Science and Technology Relatedness: The Case of DNA Nanoscience and DNA Nanotechnology. In: A. Pyka, K. Lee (eds.), Innovation, Catch-up and Sustainable Development (book series: Economic Complexity and Evolution). pp. 29-61. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-84931-3_3.

Rudi Bekkers, Arianna Martinelli (2021). A Network Analysis Approach to Intellectual Property Research. In: Irene Calboli, Maria Lilla Montagnani (eds.), Handbook of Intellectual Property Research: Lenses, Methods, and Perspectives. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0198826745.

R. Bekkers (2017). Where patents and standards come together. In: R. Hawkins (ed.) Handbook of Standards and Innovation. Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10.4337/9781783470082

Rudi Bekkers, Matthew Dalais, Antoine Dore and Nikolaos Volanis. (2014). Understanding patents, competition & standardization in an interconnected world. ITU: Geneva. ISBN: 978-92-61-14921-5 

Maskus, K., Bekkers, R., Block, M.S., Contreras, J., Gilbert, R. J., Goodman, D. J., Marasco, A., Simcoe, T., Smoot, O., Suttmeier, R., Updegrove, A. (2013). In Maskus, K., & Merrill, S. A. (Eds.). Patent challenges for standard-setting in the global economy: Lessons from the ICT industry. Committee on Intellectual Property Management in Standard-Setting Processes Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs. National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, D.C: The National Academies Press. DOI: 10.17226/18510; ISBN 978-0-309-29312-9 

Timmermans, B., Bekkers, R., & Bordoli, L. (2013). Knowledge reallocation and challenges for KIE: The case of the European roller coaster industry. In M. McKelvey & A. Heidemann Lassen, How Entrepreneurs do What they do: Case Studies in Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship. (pp. 119-132). Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI: 10.4337/9781781005507 

Bogers, Marcel, Bekkers, Rudi and Granstrand, Ove (2011), Intellectual Property and Licensing Strategies in Open Collaborative Innovation. In: Carmen de Pablos Heredero (Ed.), Open innovation at Firms and Public Administrations: Technologies for Value Creation. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-341-6.ch003 Chapter posted by permission of the publisher.

Bekkers, R., & West, J. (2010). Standards, Patents and Mobile Phones: Lessons from ETSI’s Handling of UMTS. In Information Resources Management Association (eds.) Networking and Telecommunications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (pp. 235-257). IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-986-1; ISBN 1605669865

Bekkers, Rudi (2008). Stuck on the tracks? Empirical study for investments in the Dutch Railway Sector infrastructure. In Arts, G. et. al. (eds.), New perspectives on investment in infrastructures, pp. 15-42. Study commissioned by the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR). Den Hague: Amsterdam University Press. DOI: ISBN 978-90-5356-608-4

Bekkers, R.N.A. & van der Steen, M. (2003). ‘IP-based spin-offs of public research organisations in the Dutch life science and ICT sectors.’ In: Turning Science into Business: Patenting and licensing at public research organisations (p. 263-291). Paris: OECD. ISBN: 92-64-10022-9

Bekkers, R.N.A., Verspagen, B. & Smits, J.M. (2003). Intellectual property rights and standardization: the case of GSM. In S. Bolin (Ed.), The Standards Edge. Chapter 47 (pp. 473-496). USA: Sheridan Books (Republication of Bekkers, R., Verspagen, B. & Smits, J. (2002). ‘Intellectual property rights and standardization: The case of GSM.’ In: Telecommunications Policy 26 (2002), p. 171-188. DOI: 10.1016/S0308-5961(02)00007-1)

Bekkers, R. (2001). The development of European mobile telecommunications standards: An assessment of the success of GSM, TETRA, ERMES and UMTS (doctoral dissertation). Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-386-0953-1     

R. Bekkers (2001). Mobile Telecommunications Standards: GSM, UMTS, TETRA and ERMES. Boston: Artech House. ISBN: 9781580532501

Bekkers, R.N.A. & Smits, J.M. (1999). Mobile telecommunications: Regulations, standards and applications. Boston, MA: Artech House. ISBN: 9780890068069 

R. Bekkers & J. Smits (1999). GSM in detail: Techniek en realisatie van GSM, DCS 1800 en PCS 1900 [GSM in detail: Technology and implementation of GSM, DCS 1800, and PCS 1900]. Deventer, the Netherlands: Kluwer.

R. Bekkers (1998). ‘Mobiele datacommunicatie’ [‘Mobile Telecommunications’]. In: J. Dumortier (Ed.), Mediagids: Telecom, basiswerk. Belgium: Kluwer Editorial.

R. Bekkers & J. Smits (1997). Mobiele telecommunicatie: Regulering, standaarden en toepassingen (Second, revised edition). Deventer, the Netherlands: Kluwer.

R. Bekkers & J. Smits (1997). Mobiele telecommunicatie: Europese netwerken. Deventer: Kluwer.

R. Bekkers & J. Smits (1995). Mobiele telecommunicatie: Regulering, standaarden en toepassingen. Deventer: Kluwer.