In the ‘arranged marriage’ of states and markets there are always tensions between serving the needs of individual citizens and consumers versus serving the collective good. Few areas of policy are immune from these debates and standards, as well as global standardization, certainly are not.

Standards and standardisation are becoming more politicized. So what does this mean for the economy and especially for growth sectors of the economy or those which are politically sensitive, such as energy, communications and the Internet?
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