This material of the EU project HSbooster.eu aims to help:

1. understand motives that companies may have to develop company standards;
2. understand different forms that company standards may have;
3. determine if company standardisation has been successful;
4. explain why companies may develop standards to be used only internally;
5. explain why companies may develop standards to be used only externally;
6. explain why companies may develop standards with the main goal to impose these standards on the
global market while achieving network effects/market dominance; and
7. understand benefits that companies may have from developing company standards.