Brief description

(Picture taken in front of the Old Surgeon's Hall; Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI) at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.)

Welcome! I am Research Fellow and Ph.D. Student in the Global Infrastructures research group at the Department of Informatics of the University of Oslo, Norway.

My general research interest is standardisation processes relating to information and communication technologies; specifically focusing on wireless information infrastructures, standardisation governance and the political economy of digital convergence.

My research is funded by Telenor's Research & Innovation Unit, The Research Council of Norway, as well as the European Commission's 7th Research Framework Programme.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!

Projects

Selected publications

Steen, H. U. (2011). Limits to the regulatory state in the rule-making of digital convergence: a case study of mobile TV standards governance in the European Union and China Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 23(7): 759-772

Steen, H. U. (2011). Indicators of development or dependency in disguise? Assessing domestic inventive capacity in South Korean and Chinese infrastructural ICT standards Telecommunications Policy 35(7): 663-680

Steen, H. U. (2011). The Battle Within. An Analysis of Internal Fragmentation in Networked Technologies based on a Comparison of the DVB-H and T-DMB Mobile Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Standards International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research 9(2): 50-71

Steen, H.U. (2009). Report on the standards dynamics of mobile broadcasting. Report for the China EU Standards Project, University of Edinburgh, U.K

Steen, H. U. (2009). Technology Convergence, Market Divergence: Fragmentation of Standards in Mobile Digital Broadcasting Carriers. Information Systems and E-Business Management 7(3): 319-345

Fomin, V., Jakobs, K., Stewart, J., Wan, C. & Steen, H. U. (2008).
A comparison of the standardisation environment for Mobile Communications, Mobile Video Broadcasting, and Audio/Video Codecs in the EU, China, and the US. Report for the China EU Standards Project, University of Edinburgh, U.K.

Steen, H. U. (2007). The Fragmentation of Standards in Mobile Digital Broadcast Carriers Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the Management of Mobile Business (ICMB 2007), Toronto, Canada, IEEE Computer Society.